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What to ask a supervisor and current students before you join

Record tasks, supervision, resources, funding and destinations one by one. No graduation record means no record, not a penalty.

Last checked 2026-10-25

This is a method guide, not a university rule

This is a method guide, not a university rule. Department, degree and year rules come from that programme's official page. Editorial advice and university rules are labelled apart in the text.

Who this is for

Undergraduates, taught master's students and students at Hong Kong universities who are exploring research.

Last checked

2026-10-25

The point

Record tasks, supervision, resources, funding, credit or training, working style and development one cell at a time. A cell can be unknown, confirmed, or not what you need. Unknown is not a penalty. No public graduation record is written as no record yet, and it is not a public ranking.

CUHK Graduate School's RPg code of practice describes training arrangements. It does not describe one group's ordinary week. Date and name the person who answered. Do not rewrite that answer as a university rule.

Use the group checklist. Next, write your own reason in a private comparison.

What to do

  1. Write one aim for this round. Do not change three paths at once.
  2. Open the matching official page and copy only the year, eligibility and deadline that page states.
  3. Leave unstated cells unknown. Unknown does not become open and it does not become a negative mark.
  4. Put the draft in a template or in My research. Copying is not sending.

An example

Record tasks, supervision, resources, funding, credit or training, working style and development one cell at a time. A cell can be unknown, confirmed, or not what you need. Unknown is not a penalty. No public graduation record is written as no record yet, and it is not a public ranking.

CUHK Graduate School's RPg code of practice describes training arrangements. It does not describe one group's ordinary week. Date and name the person who answered. Do not rewrite that answer as a university rule.

Use the group checklist. Next, write your own reason in a private comparison.

Easy mistakes

  • Inferring that applications are open because the page still loads.
  • Treating contact with a supervisor as formal admission.
  • Merging different deadlines, or adding 23:59 to an unknown time.

Template

The template below this article can be filled in. Blanks stay marked unwritten.

How to use the sources

Source titles, links and the check date are listed under this page. Only sources checked for this round, and not marked search_only_403 or retired_redirect, are cited. The scope does not exceed what that source says.

Next step

Return to the research home and open the next list for the stage you saved.

Group interview checklist

Eight observations, kept separate. Unknown is not zero and there is no supervisor score.

Group: 【未填写】
Question: 【未填写】
Paraphrase, not a private quotation: 【未填写】
Source and date: 【未填写】
Judgement: confirmed, still to check, or not what I need.
Still unknown: 【未填写】
This sheet has no total score.

Blanks stay unwritten. Copying does not mark this as sent.

Sources