Berita Kampus

TAR College Wins Again in Investment Quiz

TAR College proved that it produces the best investors for two years in a row when its students won the recent 7th Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) Investment Quiz Competition on 11 September 2007. The latest champions were final year Advanced Diploma in Business Studies (Finance & Investment) students Teoh Poh Kweng, Lim Chia Yue and Chan Weng Kit.

“Our seniors won the competition last year, and we really wanted to win it for the college again this year,” said Lim Chia Yue. “We were happy to be given the chance to prove ourselves.”

A total of 52 teams from 19 public and private institutions of higher learning took part in the competition which was aimed at promoting awareness of the importance of investment and the risks associated with it. Teams battled it out in a test of knowledge on the various issues and developments in investments, economics and finance.

Teoh Poh Kweng said the competition made him realise that what he had studied at TAR College is very applicable in the real world. “The knowledge that was tested in the competition is exactly what we have been taught at the College,” said Poh Kweng.

Head of TAR College School of Business Studies Ms Kho Sok Kee was ecstatic about the win and said: "The achievement by the students is a testimony of the relevance and rigour that we put our students through in our

Best among the best: The three students proudly showing their trophies (From left: Lim Chia Yue, Teoh Poh Kweng and Chan Weng Kit). With them was Mr Samuel Lim (2nd from right), the senior lecturer who guided them to success.

Finance and Investment course. This course was designed to give the students in Finance & Investment a very comprehensive coverage on the principles, concepts and broad knowledge – both theory and applied – of finance and investment.”

Kho was proud of the students who went into the final round with Universiti Malaya and Universiti Sains Malaysia trailing behind. “Our students were very much ahead of the competition,” she said. “They hit the buzzer well ahead of the others.”

Kho also credited the win to the academic staff members who have

taught and trained their students well. This proved to be helpful to the students who participated in the competition in the midst of their semester examinations.

“It was a lot of pressure and stress in trying to balance between revising for our exams and preparing for the competition,” said Chia Yue. “But we are happy we did it.”

With two wins in the bag, Chia Yue’s juniors will have to work hard to deliver a hat-trick in next year’s competition.

TAR College students (centre) facing off competitors from Universiti Malaya and Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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