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University Tips Determined mindBy
Ajarn Helen Jandamit This week�s university tips features a story about one young student�s determination to get into university. She succeeded without spending a fortune on tutors and special classes. Read this shortened version of the story that appeared in the Bangkok Post on May 8 to find out more about her. SECTION 1Read the first section of this story. Then, answer the multiple-choice questions that follow. HARD ROAD TO EDUCATION
Piyaporn thrilled her family and friends with her exam results, which were good enough to win her seats at Silpakorn University�s engineering faculty and King Mongkut�s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITS) architecture faculty. She dreams of one day becoming an architect. Piyaporn said that the Silpakorn engineering faculty limited applications for its 20 available seats to the 10 students with the highest grade point averages from each school. She earned a 3.89 GPA, which ranked third in her class. In the end, there were 70 applicants vying for the 20 seats. A total of 300 applicants applied at the KMITS architecture faculty, which later was shortlisted to 120. Of those 120 students, only 30 were selected. 1. How many universities offered seats to Piyaporn? a. 18. 2. How many seats were available in the Silpakorn engineering faculty? a. 10. 3. Of the total 300 applicants who applied to KMITS, how many were eventually selected? a. 70. 4. What did Piyaporn not have a chance to do? a. Watch
movies. Read the second section of this story and fill in the blanks with the correct words to complete the sentences. Piyaporn said that poverty ����.. 5 �����. her to struggle hard to help her family earn a ����. 6 ���� Her father has a job with a private firm, while her mother takes care of the home. Her family earns about 13,000 baht a month, which nearly all goes for rent, food and ������ 7 �����. for her and her younger sister. Her family could not make ends meet unless she helped out by selling fried bananas after school. She had to study hard, alone, to obtain a ����. 8 ����.. at a public university. SECTION 25. 6. 7. 8. SECTION 3Scan the last section of this story and answer the questions that follow. �What I did was go to bed late after reading books and reviewing lessons. It wasn�t unusual for me to stay up until 1 am,� Piyaporn said. �I always took reading material with me and read whenever I had free time in between selling.� At high school, she earned scholarships that were set aside for needy students with outstanding performance. She was also a recipient of the school�s free lunch scheme. With her academic success, Piyaporn has won praise from people in her community, and parents have hired her as a private tutor for their children. She tutors primary school pupils for two hours a day, earning 50 baht an hour. Piyaporn vows to study hard and be a successful architect so that she can one day design and build a house for her family. 9. What did Piyaporn do in her free time? ........................................................................................................................................ 10. What does Piyaporn promise to do? ........................................................................................................................................ SECTION 4Rearrange the following groups of words into correct sentences or questions. 11. out friends why Piyaporn go couldn�t her with? 12. parents tutor have Piyaporn to their asked children. 13. wants to parents Piyaporn a house her build for. 14. how universities were seats available at many the? 15. Piyaporn had always materials reading with her.
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Piyaporn Khong-eusirikul comes from a poor family and had no
chance to attend special tutoring schools like her friends did. Despite this,
the 18-year-old Matayom 6 student at Sirirattanathorn School in Bangkok was
successful in earning seats at two popular public universities this year
through the direct admission system. 
