Factors Affecting the Preference on Engineering Courses Among Female Students

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For a senior high school student, the most struggling question can not be found in their final examinations, nor in discussions whenever your teacher asks you during recitations. It is not what your guidance counsellor asked you once, when you were in a big trouble. For a fourth year high school student, deciding what course they should take up the time they enter college was the biggest turning point in their life for this is where their future lies into. It is like the biggest decision you have to do in your life because it is not just some silly question you have to answer by yes or no. It is not the type of question that you can answer in just a snap of a finger. It would take up a lot of time since there are things you still have to consider before making a decision, considering your interest. It is the most important thing you have to consider because once you have decided what course to take up and it is not what you were even interested into, there is a chance that it might affect you and your performance in school. You also have to consider your family’s opinion too, even what kind of career it will provide you once you graduated in college. Things like that can easily affect your decision making. That is why it was never easy to respond to the question “what course are you taking up in college?” Choosing the right course is like finding for your other half, because the career you have chosen will be bind to you for a lifetime. It is like there was a contract between the two of you that once broken, you will end up building another one again. Once you feel like it was not the right career for you, you have to start from scratch again and it would take a lot of time. That is why it is very bold for all the women who picke...

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