To get on free training abroad, it is necessary to correspond first of all to formal requirements (age, education, a work place and so forth). There are also other,  formalities: a recommendation from a teacher (employer), sometimes the characteristics. In most cases it is necessary to know  foreign languages (however, the British council sends to English courses to the Great Britain at public expense all those who are under all criteria for grant reception of «Chevening», but badly knows language). If  language question is OK, everything is all right to pass selection, it is just a trick. Well and, of course, luck.

At all stages of competition, except for the formalized tests (for example, TOEFL for study in America) the candidate should explain first of all why he wishes to go to this country on this program and how it will be reflected in its further career. To answer these questions, it is not necessary to be extremely smart. Therefore competitions are won unessentially by thoses who regularly received excellent grades at university and who has presented the best plan of work abroad (it is required from trainees, for example, of DAAD). Grants are won by the people, managed to make the best impression upon the members of  commission. Are for this purpose a ready tongue is needed, ability to manipulate with the facts and in general possession of technics of effective communications.

Silly errors are inadmissible. It is impossible to say, for example, that, having learnt in the USA or the Great Britain, you wish to stay there forever (an obligatory condition of stipendial programs is homecoming). But there are "pearls" which for certain will provide good feeling of you. So, Englishmen should say, that it's better to get free MBA course in  Great Britain as study lasts for a year, instead of two, as in the United States (for Americans the same argument on the contrary will be fine). Any commission will be delighted, if the examinee gives examples from own life in which he showed his ledership prectices. Or he will show excellent geographic erudition - for example, will declare, that the best juridical education in the world is given in Oxford, therefore he wishes to go there.
 

The candidate should convince the commission, that foreign experience is extremely necessary for him - after all only in this case his study , work or researches in his country will conceive success. For example, one of participants of program IREX «Present  questions of modernity» - the statistican from Yakutsk, engaged in calculation of deer in Republic Sakha (Yakutia), has managed to prove, that it is necessary for him to see in his own  eyes how Americans count deer on Alaska. In IREX there was a case when  a known scientist was given up in training concerning nuclear safety as he knew the problem really well.

There is nothing terrible if the facts "are drought in". One student was writing a diploma about publicism in Germany in 20th years of the XX-th century, has managed to receive in one German fund the grant of a name of Goethe which has allowed him to collect a material for the diploma in Germany. As the researcher of Goethe works could receive this grant only, it was necessary to use cunning. The student has written in the demand that considers publicism of emigrants through a prism of the concept of the world literature developed by the author of "Faust".