1. Reminders
F.6 Cycle 1 Tests
Paper 1
Paper 3
STUDY HARD for them

2. OEA Today’s GOALS Think about yourself & your future.
Learn how to write an attractive OEA essay.

3. How do you describe yourself?
3 Adjectives
Be POSITIVE.
PROOF

5. What is the most important to you?

6. What is your goal in life?

7. What do you want to be?

8. Dream
goals
Plans
Action
Evaluation
revision

9. OEA
OEA

10. OEA
What is OEA?
Other Experiences
& Achievements

11. OEA 10 Awards/ Activities Name Category Nature Role
What are the other parts
of the OEA section?
10 Awards/ Activities
Name
Category
Nature
Role 11

12. OEA
What are the other parts
of the OEA section?

13. OEA Who reads my OEA Essay?
Admission officers of tertiary institutions
and/ or Professors who will interview you

14. OEA What is the purpose of the OEA Essay? Lets the readers ‘see’ you &
think they should grant you
a chance to impress them
and/ or you are the kind of
candidates they are looking for.

15. OEA TASK 1A List the top 3 programmes you want to take in university.
You may want to consider your careers aspiration first.
You can refer to pp.29, 55-58, of Careers Mapping.
JUPAS 15

16. You can refer to pp.15-23 of Careers Mapping.
OEA
TASK 1B
Match your personal qualities that make you a best candidate for the top 3 programmes you want to take in university.
You can refer to pp of Careers Mapping.
table 16

17. OEA What should I write? --1
Describe an activity or an interest that is meaningful to you and has affected your personal growth or goals.
an activity or an interest

18. OEA What should I write? --1 You should write about…
Your interested programme(s);
Your interested career(s);
Your strength(s);
Your weakness(es);
What you are passionate about…

19. The field you want to study in university
OEA
Paragraph 1
The field you want to study in university
Relate it to your careers aspirations/ life goals.
(e.g. social science, the business field, a medical-
related field, a discipline which studies the past )

20. (Make sure it is consistent with your choice of discipline.)
OEA
Paragraph 2
An interest or an activity that has been particularly meaningful to you or has affected ysour personal growth or life goals
(Make sure it is consistent with your choice of discipline.)

21. (How many ideas should there be in each paragraph?)
OEA
Paragraph(s) 3 (& 4)
Show through your involvement in activities that you possess the qualities which make you a suitable candidate for the discipline.
(How many ideas should there be in each paragraph?)

22. OEA Paragraph 5 Conclusion
Reiterate your careers aspirations and say you want university education

23. OEA What should I write? --2 So in other words, the essay should …
Make you stand out;
Convince the readers you are the person they want;
Be persuasive;
Be coherent;
Be succinct;
Be specific.

24. OEA What should I NOT include? 1. Do NOT focus on
ONE course or ONE college
as you have to
enter 20 programme choices.

25. OEA Sample Essay Analysis Science: I have had a dream since young.
It is to help everyone in need…
I took part in…And I would
like to receive an advanced
education in the science field
to contribute to the society…
So now, my dream is no longer
a dream. It is a goal I am going
to achieve…

26. OEA Sample Essay Analysis Medical Sciences:
I am a caring, optimistic and
compassionate person.
Last summer, I volunteered at the
PWH… These experiences have made
me realize how much I want to help
the patients, comfort them and
ease their worries. Therefore, I
have decided to devote myself to
helping patients…

27. OEA Sample Essay Analysis Nursing: I believe that I have
the right qualities to become a nurse.
First, I have been playing the piano
for five years… Second, I am good
at languages… Third, I
work well with others…

28. Speech & Hearing Science at university. This is the
OEA
Sample Essay Analysis
Science/Education:
I would like to study
Speech & Hearing Science
at university. This is the
course I like most…

29. OEA
QUESTIONS?

30. Think hard and fill in the form carefully.
OEA
Homework
Think hard and fill in the form carefully.

31. Come here fully prepared.
OEA
11 July
Bring back the form.
Come here fully prepared.