PORTFOLIO STUDY SKILLS UED102
Assalammualaikum and selamat sejahtera to all of my blog readers and also my respected advisor, madam Nur 'Ainun mokhtar.
My personal detail:
📖CONTENTS OF UED 102 2019:
1)Learning Style Inventory
2)Goal Statement-The 5 steps approach
3)Fixed-Commitment Calendar
4)Job Task Analysis
5)Prioritized To-Do List
6)Memory Strategies
7)Organizational Strategies
8)Concentration Strategies
9)Concentration Chart
10)Reading Text
11)Note-Taking Strategies
12)Note-Taking Exercise Using The Cornell Method
13)GPA Worksheet
Topic 1
Getting ready to learn
👉Entering the varsity life is completely different from being in school. Students need to be adaptive with the changes, in which not an easy task. When it comes to a new place it is a must for every student to make new friends. Students also need to learn being independent managing their life and study.they also must be mentally strong, because they are living apart from family and home. In conclusions, there are abundant of new things students need to know and adapt in the university life.students also must be able to adapt with the new things faster and go through it with positive minds.
Self Assesment:
👉What kind of student I am?
I am a type of hardworking student.once I set my goal, I'll put all of my efforts to get it done. This is because, I strongly believe that No pain, no gain. Besides I'm also a strong willing person, because I always achieve my target.
👉How strong is my character:
Character strength is crucial to born a competent and charismatic students or workers. With good character strength people will be more productive in what they do and can contribute to the development of nation.Therefore, I have develop some good character strengths. There a few character strengths that I possess one of them is being an achiever. This trait helps me a lot to be proactive. For an example, I can't sit silent doing nothing throughout the day. At least I achieve something useful for me even during the weekend/holiday.
Learning style
👉People learn and memorize information using a variety of learning styles. Learning styles are how you concentrate, process and remember new and difficult information.actually there are many ways to study but at this moment we are going to narrow it into 3 study categories which are visual learner (using eye), auditory Learner (using ear) and kinesthetic learner (using their physicals)
To know what types of Learner you are. you must do a test on learning style inventory. Like I did.
LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY
SCORING MARKS
Summary of my inventory learning style:
From the test, I score the highest into visual column.it is clearly shown that I incline to be a visual learner. I got that study with colourful notes, pictures, graphs and charts are suit with me. Besides, it is also the best practising visual memory during study. Rewrite your notes using different colours is also might be helping. I found that all of these study ways are more fascinating and helping me a lot memorizing my study.
My study habits that I can improve?
1)choosing the right study environment.
2)use mnemonic devices.
3) Don't attempt to cram all you studying into one session. Take a regular break. And learn to be consistent with your study and to have regular yet shorter, study periods
4)Add extra pictures and colours inside notes.
8 STEPS TO COLLEGE SUCCESS
1) Find the right friends and learn to say no.
In campus life making friends is a must for each student because there will be always group discussion and many new updates that sometimes we need to make friends as the reference. Eventhough friends sound important we need to be wise to differentiate them. We need to choose the one who can motivate and encourage us to reach our goals and focus to our study. Besides, please be assertive to say no to friends who only will bring you fall like the one who love to socialise and fun all the time.
In campus life making friends is a must for each student because there will be always group discussion and many new updates that sometimes we need to make friends as the reference. Eventhough friends sound important we need to be wise to differentiate them. We need to choose the one who can motivate and encourage us to reach our goals and focus to our study. Besides, please be assertive to say no to friends who only will bring you fall like the one who love to socialise and fun all the time.
2) Become an active learner
we cannot just read the book or notes couple of time. The best way to study is we need to coop with our senses such as write and recite the information louder to get it into long-term memory.this is because, human brain is designed to remember action better. this is what I practiced during the spm and it was really work for me.
3) organize your time wisely
Students who make adjustments to and are aware of issues in time management are far more likely to succeed in college.students must know to schedule their time in order to live a balanced live, reduce procrastinatination and also reduce stress.
4) Don't skip classes
Successful students grab every opportunity to study at class. Besides,most of the exam question also will come from lecturer. So don't skip class to prevent missing important points.
5) Work hard in every semester
It is important to us to always set in our mind to do our best and work hard to something that we want to achive.
It is important to us to always set in our mind to do our best and work hard to something that we want to achive.
6)Always remember the first reason why you pursue your study.
We must always bear in mind the reason why we are investing time,money and commitment to pursue education at higher level.By keeping this in mind, it might help us to boost our motivation during our mournful day. Therefore students will be determined to perform well in their study and will not easily influenced by the negative vibes in order to make their investment worthy.
We must always bear in mind the reason why we are investing time,money and commitment to pursue education at higher level.By keeping this in mind, it might help us to boost our motivation during our mournful day. Therefore students will be determined to perform well in their study and will not easily influenced by the negative vibes in order to make their investment worthy.
7)Exercise and maintain a healthy life
according to scientist survey, exercise such as running and so on can benefit the brain. This can be one of the ways to relax the mind after all day long learning.
8)meditation
we as Muslims must always maintain the relationship with Allah S. W. T.by keeping the prayers and performing charity and praying that the acquired knowledge be blessed, and having a peaceful life. By doing so, we can be a successful student.
Topic 2
Goal setting
GOALS💪
what is goal?
👉A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person envisions to achieve.a goal usually has a deadline.
Why we need to set our goals?
👉Goals drive us to be more proactive and focus on where we want to end up.therefore, we will be more competent and become an achiever.
What is goal setting?
👉Goal setting is a process for thinking about your ideal future and for motivating yourself to turn this vision/dream of the future into reality.
👉The process of goal setting will help you to clearly express yourself to know where you want to go in life.
From the quote above,I firmly believe that we can chase any of our dreams,If only we set a clear goals. To set a clear and achievable goals we need a guidance to stay at the right path. Therefore I would like to introduce SMART formula in which I've learnt during MINDS classes at UITM Bertam pulau pinang.
Every elements in SMART plays its roles to get us near to our dreams
SPECIFIC GOALS
🎓Your goal must be clear,concise, and well defined, by defining precisely where you want to end up. You need specific goals to brighten you up.with the specific goals our brain, will work and start to do some problem solving, 1thinking the solution to get you into what you want. Therefore do not let your goals like a bold open ended statement. To make sure your goal is well defined u also can use 5Ws who, what, where, when, why.
MEASURABLE GOAL
🎓A smart goal must have a criteria to measure in order lto make sure that you can track your progress. To set a measurable goal u must know what is the indicator of your progress, how many/how much that You need to achieve. That is the only way to know whether you are already reach your goals or not.
ACHIEVABLE GOALS
🎓This part is a pinnacle in goals setting strategy. If you set a goal that is impossible to achieve, you will only demoralise yourself and erode your confidence. So, make sure it’s possible to achieve the goals you set.
RELEVANT GOALS
🎓Goals should be relevant to the direction you want your life and career to take. By keeping goals aligned with this, you will develop the focus you need to get ahead and inconsistent goals, and you will fritter your time and your life away.
TIME-BOUND GOALS
🎓Your goals must have a deadline. This means that you know when you can celebrate success. When you are working on a deadline ,your sense of urgency increases and achievement will come that much quicker.
LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM GOALS
⚫Long-term goals:something you want to do further in future. That takes long time to achieve. Need a long time commitments to achieve. Usually the period it takes years.for example graduate from college.
⚫Short-term goals:goals that can happen quickly.something that can accomplish soon.we can set for an hour from now, end of day or semester. For example like taking a class.
ACADEMICS AND PERSONAL GOALS
⚫ACADEMIC GOALS IS something that related with our works. Such as for students, we must completing assignment and preparing for exam.
⚫PERSONAL GOAL IS something that
related with our daily life.
related with our daily life.
5 STEP APPROACH TO SETTING GOALS
- TENTATIVE GOAL STATEMENT
- LIST OF OBSTACLES
- LIST OF RESOURCES
- REVIVE GOALS STATEMENT
- POLISHED GOALS STATEMENT
I'm practicing the 5 step approach to setting goals and find it is the efficient way to help me set my goals
There are always obstacles to get at the higher place.I hope that I could motivate myself and cope with those obstacles swiftly.
TOPIC 3:TIME MANAGEMENT
Time is gold, the common quotes that emphasis the precious of time. Because time is too precious in one's life I'm going to describe about time management to make sure that we students practising this efficient people techniques and appreciate every seconds we have by not being a time waster.Time management is the technique to use one's time efficiently by knowing how to organize and divide time between the specific activities. one who master how to manage their time wisely are tend to achieve almost anything in lifes. It is said that the first step towards success is through efficient time management.
The benefits of time management:
1)increases productivity
2)improves quality of works and life
3)reduce stress
4)reduce procrastination.
5)save some extra time.
There are 3 subtopics under this topic:
1)FIXED COMMITMENT CALENDAR
We need to assign our routine specific commitment into our available study time.
2)JOB TASK ANALYSIS
A process that helps us to identify and measures the important level of every duty.
3)PRIORITIZED TASK LIST
It helps us to track our progression and set our priority on every duty. With detailed listing of duties, it will make our life go smoothtly.
TOPIC 4:MEMORY, LEARNING AND IMPROVING CONCENTRATION.
The diagram above shows the percentage of learning rates and through different ways of learning method.
Let's acknowledge our brain which is the center of the body!
We must be grateful to God because granted us with intelligence. Therefore, we must not underestimate our brain's ability.
Introducing type of memories:
1)sensory memory:
Numerous Information from our 5 senses will be stored in our sensory memory.
2)short term memory:
Short term memory is also known as working memory. Its size is limited.we usually put things that is necessary for a while inside our short term memory.to turn short term memory into long term memory we need to do repetition.
3)Long term memory:
It is also known as working memory.we can save a larger quantity of memories. Through long term memory we can save input for longer period but we need to do repetition or keep using the memory.If not the memory will be lost.
Today I would like to do some study about the new 4 topics.that was assigned by my lecturer madam Nur Ainun binti mokhtar. It is all about how to improve my study skills to be more systematic and effective. Therefore, I had answered 4 handouts given by the lecturer. I will point it out in my blog for your view.
1)MEMORY STRATEGIES:
Understanding memory process:
Human memory vs computer memory.
1)Encoding/input
Computer:keyboard, camera
Human:The 5 senses ears, mouth, nose, skin, eyes
2)storage:
Computer:hard disk, thumb drive
Human 3 types of memory:sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory.
3)Retrieval/output
Computer:computer screen, printer
Human:writing/talking.
How forgetting could occur:
👉Didn't pay attention to the info
👉Didn't understand info
👉Cramming
👉Didn't have good strategies
👉Interference(having 2 exams on the same day)
👉Test anxiety (negative thoughts about oneself, didn't prepare well for exam)
Factors that affect memory:
Knowledge-with knowledge the easier makes link new into
Strategy-memory strategies determine how much you can remember
Capacity-it is suggested memory capacity increases with age.
Every person may use their own ways to remember something important in their lifes such as study, tasks and etc.The below handout is an activity to find out the truth behind my own memory strategies.
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Based on the activity above, my score is quite well in which 7 out of 10. but, it is not perfect yet because ,there are still flaws in my memory strategies that I need to improve. So, I must find out some useful ways that I can practice to overcome my deficiency in this matter.here is
- I must practice what I've learnt by teaching others.
- I must test myself to acknowledge my memory level.
- I must practice a healthy balanced diet and eat supplement to nourish the brain.
- Give my brain some workouts by learning and doing something new everyday.
- Become an active learner by actively use multi senses during study.
- Write every important tasks that I need to settle down.
2)ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES.
This is one of the strategy that can make us become a better version of students. Well planning organizational strategies might bring a great impact in every human's life. Everything will go smoothly, neater and easier to understand when we organising something. This is because we break the complicated/complex things into small patches which is minimizing our brain usage.
When I try to remember those 12 items randomly I find out that it is hard to memorize all of them,but when I do the classification I find out that things get easier to remember.
3)CONCENTRATION STRATEGIES:
The meaning of concentration is the to give all of your attention to one particular activity subject or problem
Distraction is our eminent enemy to concentrate on what we do.In this techno era, students are easily got distracted and have poor concentration when get things done.
3)CONCENTRATION STRATEGIES:
The meaning of concentration is the to give all of your attention to one particular activity subject or problem
Distraction is our eminent enemy to concentrate on what we do.In this techno era, students are easily got distracted and have poor concentration when get things done.
Based on the activity above, I'm scoring pretty well. but, I still need to improvise my concentration strategies with some ways:
1)take a frequent break every 30 min study. Therefore our brain do not tired and has enough time to process the input.
2)do meditation
3)solve the personal problems that keep distracting your mind.
4)control the phone usage.
4)CONCENTRATION CHART:
This activity will help students to monitor and track their concentration level when get things done.
It is helping me a lot to identify the cause of my lack concentration.it also helps to reduce procrastination
I have discover how to study with SQ3R method. It is for the students to understand text better.
Based on the text above I have made an example of reading text using SQ3R method. As you can see below.
Here is the method to use it. Hope students could improvise their reading text skills with this practical ways.
Topic 5:taking lecture notes
Note taking strategies:
Today I've learnt how to take an efficient notes in class. Before that I have to answer this handout to know whether my note taking strategy is good enough or at the other hand.
Based on the activity above, I have a quite good note taking strategy. I've learnt that there was a variety of ways to take an efficient note.i would LIKE to share those useful ways of taking notes to enlighten you up.
First of all is using Cornell method.
Secondly is the mind mapping method.
Last but not least,is through the outlining method.
Note taking strategy using Cornell method
Here, I would like to specify the Cornell method which is more easy to use and very helpful for students.
Benefits of note taking strategies:
1)help us to pay attention in class.
2)help us to improve memory.
3)help us study for quiz, test or final.
Topic 6 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PERFORMANCE.
In the varsity life students are very synonym with GPA and CGPA. But as newbies do we know what these terms mean to us?therefore as a student we need to learn and study these terms because it is very related to us.
GPA (GRADE POINT AVERAGE) and CGPA (CUMULATIVE GRED POINT AVERAGE) both are different terms but related each other. We use this terms in university to measure students achievement in their study.
GPA is a result of your current semester.
Formula FOR GPA:
CGPA is the result for the overall semesters. It is the grade points obtained all semesters are added & divided by the sum of his total credit hours for every semester.
To improve CGPA you must improve your GPA.
Formula for CGPA:
Here is an example for GPA worksheet:
I need to study smart and hard to maintain a good GPA and CGPA which will be a bonus in choosing a future occupation.
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