Supplementary application

Important Note: It will take up to 10 business days after you have applied on OUAC and received your acknowledgement email before you will receive access to your supplementary application via email. Thank you for your patience! Be sure to check your “promotions”, “junk” and/or “spam” folders for this email.

If you do not have your McMaster Student ID Number, please contact thinkeng@mcmaster.ca with your full name, program name, OUAC reference number, and email registered to OUAC.

Please contact Kira Talent directly by clicking the ‘Need help?’ button and choosing ‘Live Chat’ at the top right at any point in the process or you can email the Kira Talent Support Team directly at support@kiratalent.com.

Correct! If you have applied to more than one of our MacEng programs, you are only required to complete one application. The score you will receive will be used for admission purposes to any of the Faculty of Engineering programs you applied to.

For Ontario High School Applicants: Your supplementary application status on your MOSAIC account/Student Centre will take a while after the official deadline to be updated so the status of “notified” is normal! Once you complete your application, you should receive a confirmation email from Kira Talent stating that you have completed your assessment.

For High School Applicants from Outside of Ontario or Upper Level Transfer/2nd Degree Applicants: Your supplementary application status on your Applicant Portal will take a while after the official deadline to be marked as completed. Once you complete your application, you should receive a confirmation email from Kira Talent stating that you have completed your assessment.

As long as you have received a confirmation email from Kira Talent or you click on your initial invitation link and see 100% completed, you have nothing to worry about. Each supplementary application gets reviewed by at least two reviewers before being sent to McMaster.

The supplementary application is a mandatory part of the admissions process for any of our Faculty of Engineering programs which includes Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Engineering 1 and/or Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences (iBioMed), as well as all 2nd-degree applicants. Only one application is required if you are applying to more than one of these programs.

The supplementary application will consist of 4 questions (3 video responses and 1 written response) and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

There is a part of the application that says “practice questions”, but please be aware this is used for calibration purposes to get you familiar with the platform and the questions you will find here are NOT like the real assessment questions.

Once you begin your assessment, you will only get one opportunity to answer each question.

For each video response: you will receive 1 minute to prepare your answer and 2 minutes to verbally respond to your question.

Written Response: you will have 10 minutes to complete your answer from when you receive the question.

There is a $50 fee for the supplementary application that you will pay for when applying through the Ontario University Application Centre (OUAC). Please note this fee will be called a “McMaster program fee.”

For each video response: you will receive 1 minute to prepare your answer and 2 minutes to verbally respond to your question.

For the written response: you will have 10 minutes to complete your answer from when you receive the question.

There is a part of the application that says “practice questions”, but please be aware this is used for calibration purposes to get you familiar with the platform and the questions you will find here are not like the real assessment questions.

We recommend that you take the time to review and take notes of your experiences to reference for the 4 official assessment question. You may find it helpful to google interview questions to practice with outside of the platform.

• What does being resourceful mean to you, and why is it important?
• Tell us about a time management strategy you used. Why does it work?
• How do you create a balance for yourself when working in a stressful environment­?
• Give us an example of a time you acted with integrity.

If you have applied to the Bachelor of Technology Degree Completion Program – you are not required to complete a supplementary application form.

We reached out to our incredible team of Student Ambassadors to pass along their advice on completing the supplementary application:

• Make a plan or a basic skeleton of how you’ll answer questions. Make sure to include what your topic is about, how it affected you and how you used your knowledge and experience to overcome the task/topic and what you learned from the experience. McMaster wants to get to know you, the person behind the grades/academics, so these supplementary applications are the gateway to knowing you!
• Make sure you’re in a well-lit area where you won’t be disturbed!
• Try not to stress, be yourself, they are just trying to get to know you! Don’t worry about what you think they want to hear, answer truthfully, your fresh ideas and approach will shine through!
• One surprising thing about my application was that it was quite easy to fill the time limit for the video answers. I was initially concerned that I would not have enough to say to fill up the time, however, the questions are great at simply bringing forth the experience and opinions you already have. I found that as long as I stayed true to my real self and experiences, the time was easy to fill.
• For any application you complete during your lifetime, it’s always best to start early. This is a good way to avoid deadline stress and provides extra time to prepare and review your application if needed. You got this!