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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Invitation Letters and Entrance issues

I got it as a comment on one of my recent posts and I am posting it as a blog keeping in mind that it would be helpful to many more other students having similar queries:

Dear www.nepalfinland.com
I went through your website which I found very important. Thank you very much for your such service on the behalf of students. I love this very much.
As others, I have some quiries regarding entrance exam for Finland, I hope your answer will be much beneficial for me. Here it is:

Thank you very much for writing to me. I started this blog keeping in mind that it would somehow help Nepalese students who are preparing for Finland since I remember how much I struggle to gather information when I was applying. I am always ready to help as much as I can from my side to my friends who are preparing for Finland. I am glad that you liked my initiative on www.nepalfinland.com.

1.My brother and sister have applied for the UAS and got the invitation letter too. But what can be done if they are asked to attend entrance in Finland? Is there any way to manage the entrance here in Nepal?

First of all, let me congratulate your brother and sister for getting Invitation Letter for entrance examination. There are some colleges which invites students on Finland to appear on Entrance while other colleges coordinates with Finnish Embassy in Nepal to conduct entrance exam on behalf of that college. If your brother and sister are asked to attend Entrance in Finland, they can apply for a short term visa in Finland; come here in Finland in order to attend entrance exam and get back to Nepal and wait for admission acceptance. But, for average Nepalese students like us, this process is really expensive and almost impossible for medium class families like me. So, the best alternative could be, you contact with Finnish Embassy in Bishal Nagar to coordinate with college and conduct entrance on their behalf. As far as my knowledge, Finnish Embassy has done it several times after students request. In some coses, college themselves are not aware of the fact that Local Embassy like Finnish Embassy in Kathmandu conducts Entrance for them. So, you communicate with both of the parties, request them and try to convince them to manage entrance exam on Kathmandu. You notify the college that local embassy conducts such entrance and many other colleges of Finland participate on such entrance. At the same time, you kindly request embassy to coordinate with college to manage entrance in Kathmandu. After such requests, many times Finnish Embassy have managed to accommodate students of such colleges on their entrance tests. But, remember, there are some typical colleges, which never trust even on their Finnish Embassies; in that case, your brother and sister must come to Finland to attend entrance exam. So, communicate with college in time and prepare for visa at the same time; if it does not success to manage there, make their travel arrangement to Finland to participate on Entrance Exam. It would have been more easier for me talk precisely if you had mentioned the name of the college as well.

2.They have applied for four UAS. Do they have to attend all the four entrance exam? What happens if they don't get invitation letter from all the four?

It is not necessary to attend all four entrance exam. Since they applied from a single application form using Joint Application System of www.admissions.fi, they just need to attend at least one entrance offered by any one out of those four colleges in which they have applied. It does not matter how many invitations do they get to appear on the entrance examination, they just need to appear for only one entrance examination. For example, if they got Invitation Letter from all four colleges, they just need to appear on only one entrance and their entrance score is automatically shared by all four colleges. If they got Invitation from three or two colleges, the score of entrance is shared by those two or three colleges. If you got invitation from only one college, the score is not shared with any of the other colleges. The college from which they did not get invitation letter means, they are not selected for further processes on that particular college.

What to do if two or more college sent invitation letter and one of them invited to Finland to appear for Entrance and other asked to appear on Entrance held by Embassy in Kathmandu itself?

The wise decision is to appear entrance in Kathmandu itself. If you have applied through the same joint application system, using the same form for those colleges, you can communicate with that college with invited you to Finland to appear on Entrance stating that you applied through the Joint Application System to these-these colleges and out of those this particular college also invited you to appear on Entrance on Kathmandu only; so it is feasible for you to appear on this test and request them to share the same entrance score for their purpose also. In general, they are easily agreed and will coordinate themselves with each other about entrance score since they had already known the name of the colleges which issued you invitation letter. It is because, all of the invitation letter are issued through the same joint application system maintaining a central database, so they are already aware about the fact that you are also invited by other colleges. So, your task on this stage is just to remind them your decision to appear on Kathmandu Entrance rather than coming to Finland to appear on Entrance Exam.

3.They have applied for business and science. What could be the better way for getting the sample questions for the preparation.

As I wrote it multiple times on many of my previous posts on this blog, the best solution of getting sample question is either Embassy or college itself. But, don't be sure that you would get it, since some college prefer to hide entrance detail to test genuine students on Entrance. So, you should consult with Embassy in Bishal Nagar and College itself if they could provide you any sample questions for entrance examinations. If the college does not encourage to hide entrance detail; there is probability of getting them other wise not.

4. Last , but not least,what will be the better suggestions for them who are preparing for the entrance. and if they get the invitation from all the uas on what basis they could give priority on which university.

If you are preparing for entrance, never think that you are going for an examination; just think that you are going for refreshing your high school and senior secondary school knowledge. If you were average students during your schooling (including +2), your average preparation on science, math and English is more than enough to score good marks in Entrance. Prepare with cool mind, you need not to take pressure of entrance. But, it does not mean to ignore the importance of high score in entrance. The selection on colleges fully depend upon your performance on entrance. So, high score really matters. I would like to assure you, if you prepare at least two hours from at least two weeks before the exam, you will score very good marks in entrance.

If you got invitation for entrance from all of the UAS, you just choose the one which arranges entrance in Kathmandu only so that you need to visit Finland just for Entrance purpose. If all of those offers entrance in Kathmandu itself, you need not to choose any, since when you will appear on the examination that score would be shared by all of the UAS if all them are under joint application system.
Please write to me at nepalfinland@gmail.com if you have any further queries.

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