study skills(UED 102): July 2018

study skills
week 1 interim
UED102

INTRODUCTION

Assalamualaikum,

My name is Muhammad Azraei Daniel Bin Sazlan and i'm here to share to you about my first interim week in UITM PAHANG kampus JENGKA. It was a really hectic week before interim week because we are suppose to go through the MDS(minggu destini siswa).We need to follow all the rules that was decided by our OC and some of the rule are even seemed impossible for me cause it was way out of my routine life before entering this university. One of the rule was we need to wake up at 4 a.m. in the morning to prepare for a roll call at 5 a.m. but after somehow manage to survive all the siswa and siswi need to prepare for the interim week that will lasted for three weeks. One of class that we need to attend was UED102(STUDY SKILLS). So in this blog i will share to you what I an EC110 student had learn in this class.

TOPIC ONE:GETTING READY TO LEARN

MAKING TRANSITION

The first topic is getting ready to learn and it was teach by Madam Aimi. In this topic we learn how to adapt our self in the difference between the life of a high school student and the life of an university student. Somehow this has opened my mind a little bit because i realise that i am no more in my comfort zone so i have to stand on my own now without the help of my family but it was not a problem for me to adjust my surrounding because i had always been studying in away from my family and living in the life as a boarding school student because in the MRSM system student are require to stay in the hostel that had been provided by the school.This is the difference between highschool and university

HIGHSCHOOLl	UNIVESTITY
The class session is more longer and packed	Less class session as we can decide our own credit hours
Need to follow the dress code that had been set by the school	More open as we can decide our own uniform
More test that is given through out the year	There would be less test only the final exam and sometimes the lecturer will give some quiz
The important date will always be reminded by the teachers	The lecturer will only inform the important date less frequent
Some assignment will have an extra time if student does not complete in the time given	There will be no extra time and the assignment will be rejected
Truancy will not affect the exam grades	Truancy will have a big effect on the exam grades if you miss a quiz or etc
Student will be given homework everyday and the teachers will check it in the next class	Less homework and it will not be check by the lecturer

CHARACTERISTIC OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENT

MOTIVATED - student need to have this quality because it will push the student to its limits bacause the student will stop at nothing to achieve what he wants.This will lead to the student having no regret to sacrifice the time and hardwork
RESPONSIBLE - this is the most obvious quality that you might find in a successful student because this quality would lead to the student awareness of having to prioritize between pleasure and work
HAVE HIGH EQ'S - emotional intelligence is the ability to control your feelings under certain circumstances and this quality is very important because nowadays student will have urges to be in a relationship but with this quality he could still control his feelings if the relationship somehow affect his studies
CONFIDENCE - having confidence in yourself would help you to believe that you are capable of completing the task so you wont be giving up easily
INTELLECTUAL CURIOUS - in order to become a successful student you need to have the passion in your studying

USING LEARNING STYLE TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE

Based on the test that Madam Aimi had conducted which is the learning style inventory I had scored:

VISUAL - 5
AUDITORY - 6
KINESTHETIC - 8

So it seems that i am more into a kinesthetic type of learner so in order to improve myself i need to study by using my hand more often,cut up charts and diagrams or create flascard but to be truth i had already tried this method during spm and i work perfectly fine with me because it helps me memorize better especially subjects that involve reading but for subject that includes calculation i am more comfortable with hearing music while studying.I would also want try to create mind maps,flow charts to see if im also a visual learner or maybe try to summarize what i had read into my own sentence to see if some part of me is a auditory learner.

TOPIC TWO:GOAL SETTING

SETTING GOAL FOR THE NEW SEMESTER

FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL - this quote is given by Miss Aina and it shows that planning is a major part in if you want to achieve something and in my case to graduate in diploma in civil engineering. For this semester i target to achieve 3.5 and above for my pointer and become a dean student.

I feel very enthusiastic to achieve my goal since this is my first semester and it is really important that i scored because my long term goal is graduate with ANC(ANUGERAH NAIB CANSELOR) so i really need to score 3.5 above for every semester

WRITING EFFECTIVE GOAL STATEMENT

S - specific(the goal need to be in detail not just an overall statement)

M - measurable(the goal must be something that can be count)

A - achievable(the goal must be something that can be achieve with the person area)

R - realistic(the goal must be something logic that can be achieve with the human capability)

T - timely(the goal must be achieve in a period time that had been decided)

USING THE LEARNING MANAGEMENT

Set the goals(you need to be clear with your goal)
Make a commitment and hard work(dedicate yourself to accomplish your goal)
Be accountable(you need to take responsibilities after you set up your goal)

TOPIC THREE:TIME MANAGEMENT

In this topic I learn that we ourselves need control out time not the time controling us because we need optimize our time to the fullest so that we could use our time doing the things that we need to do like finish our assignment,spending time with friends,doing revision and many more.

'Begin with the end in mind' that was what miss Aina said to class this means that we need to know how to stop for example if you are playing games you need to know when to stop so that it would not interrupt our daily schedule because if you dont know how to stop the maybe it will take your slepping time making you having less sleep and cant concentrate in the lecture

There are 5 strategies that miss Aini had taught us which is we need to have:

-weekly schedule

-daily planner

-semester calender

-academic vs personal life

This are some remedy if you loose yourself

1.go back to your goal(you need to be reminded why are you doing this)

2.alert to deadline(by having an awareness of the deadline you will have some concern about your work)

3.prioritized(each things need to be considered of its level of importancy so that you will more focused on doing the things more important)

4.self reward(try to reward yourself after you have accomplished something so that you will feel more pleasure after completing it)

Time management tools are the most important for a student in life because it can help you to organize your day.This is one of the example of a calender by huawei(promote)