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2nd: QUIZ ON CULTURE
A small booklet containing 50 questions is given to the candidates. Those questions were selected by six different sources that covered themes like sports, politics, history, geography,arts and world news. The answers were there on 5 options, as multiple choice type of quiz. At the last page there is a score page where the candidate mark  the answers and writes his ID code.
The level of schooling desired in order to do this test is appropriated according to the ages of the candidates and an important qualification was then checked on the candidates: how much would they know about the world and about their own country. We strongly believe a good level of this knowledge is an important tool for someone who is willing to become an exchange student abroad.


3rd: PERSONAL INTERVIEW
Each candidate is interviewed by one of the interviewer-teams, that were specially trained and oriented for, consisted by four people: an experienced YEO who will lead, a Rotary-Mom, a selected Rotex member and one invited inbound student. Although the team leader has an option not to considerated the score given by the inbound student, it has never happened yet. Those team members are given an evaluation sheet where they should rank their individual opinion on each candidate facing six different themes:       

a real desire and  strong will to participate as an exchange student;
maturity, character;
attitude;
trustiness, sincerity;
communicability;
extra school activities;
How well would themselves host this candidate in their own home?

To make this possible, the teams were first given an orientation, a simulation and are told the aspects that the Rotary Youth Exchange Program District 4760 Committee believe are better in each of the themes that they were going to rank the candidates in the interviews.
Each interview is timed between 15’ and 18’, separated by and intermission of 2’ in order for the examiners to complete their papers
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