By
Timothy Naarendorp –GAC class 2012
This year’s GAC
group comprises of six AlphaMax students including myself. These students with
their chosen field of future study are: Yamil Baptistal (Aerospace Engineering),
Gabriel Grauwde (Civil Engineering), Timothy Naarendorp (Electrical Engineering),
Vinantia Nandlal (Medicine), Ruth Saman (Dentistry), and Kristina Taylor (Philosophy).
The course
started on September 5th with six modules .These modules consisted
of: Academic Listening and Speaking Skills (001), Academic Reading and Writing
Skills (002), Study Skills for Independent Learning (003), Mathematics 1:
Fundamentals (004), Introduction to Computing for Academic Study (005), Business,
Science & Social Science: Communication Skills (006). Everyone soon hustled
to finish their assignments as soon as possible and of course everyone did. The
first module was finished on November 18th. The second level of the
GAC program will start inNovember and end middle of March.
I asked two
of the GAC students to comment about what they think about the class. The first
student, Kristina Taylor, commented, “It is challenging, but not difficult. If
you set your mind to it you can do it and that is what we did, we set our mind
to it and finished level one of GAC.”
Gabriel
Grauwde commented, “Regardless of the intensive program the GAC offers, I think
that this course will fully prepare me for the road that lies ahead.”
I think,
like Kristina that the program really was challenging and I believe it will
become even more challenging with the levels 2 & 3 that still wait ahead of
us. The GAC program really prepares student for their University work. It makes
them more responsible and lets them think at a whole new different level.
One of the
most interesting days was November 10th when we had the mock interview
rehearsing us for an interview with the admissions section of a University? We
were all dressed up in professional attire and brought
our personal statements and resumes.
AlphaMax
has been giving GAC courses since 2007. They also do SAT, PSAT, TOEFL, IELTS
and GED exams.
If anyone would like to know more about the
AlphaMax; please visit http://www.alphamaxacademy.com/
