UED102 - STUDY SKILLS

Hi and Assalammualaikum to all my dearest readers. Welcome to my first ever blog! 🙋Before I start, let me introduce a little bit about myself as the writer for this blog.😊

My name is WAN SERI IRYSHA BINTI WAN AHMAD FARHAN. I am 18 years old. Currently, I was studying for program DIPLOMA IN SCIENCE (AS120)  in UiTM CAWANGAN PAHANG, KAMPUS JENGKA or well known as Kampus Khazanah Alam 🌲. The distance between my house to the campus is 159.1km which usually takes 2 hours. By the way, I live in Selayang, Selangor. 

As the student of part one, I was given a task during UED102 classes throughout the interim weeks. UED102 is a study skills course that every student of UiTM must take it. This course provides us as a student with learning skills essentials for varsity life.
In this class, the students learned about basic academic skills that being exposed by the lecturers. 

Before the UED102 class start, we were divided into several groups and I was placed in group JK1F. The class was held at Dewan Kuliah 2 (DK2). There were two assessments that we must submit. 

The first one which is a group work, we were asked to form a team of 10 members and prepare a creative video presentation of five interesting places in Kampus Jengka. Next is an individual assignment. The lecturer asks us to submit an e-portfolio about the study skills and that is! That is the objective of my blog, to share what I had learned in the class during the interim weeks.  

So let's start it!


CONTENT OF MY E-PORTFOLIO :

1. GETTING READY TO LEARN
2. GOAL SETTINGS
3. TIME MANAGEMENT
4. GETTING TO KNOW THE CAMPUS
5. MEMORY, LEARNING AND  IMPROVING CONCENTRATION
6. TAKING LECTURE NOTES
7. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PERFORMANCE

TOPIC 1: GETTING READY TO LEARN

DATE: 7th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2
LECTURER: Sir Zul Adlan bin Mohd Hir

• SCHOOL LIFE VS COLLEGE LIFE

We are diploma students. We all come from different places. But one thing for sure, we all are a high school student before. We all had to go through school life and now we become a college student. Therefore, college is a new phase of life to us. This is what my lecturer, Sir Zul had shared with us: the different of school life and college life.

Based on what I had shared here, it shows how different school life and college life are. What I want to highlight is, college life taught us to be more independent and discipline. We already growing up. Be matured enough to differentiate between the good thing and the bad one. Most of our parents live far away. They don't have at here to advice and take care of everything for us. We don't want to make them worried about us, right? So, make sure to do the best. Not to forget, even though life at school and college are different, there is also one similarity here. School and college are education place. So be ready to gain more knowledge at this new place! 

• CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS

Talk about being a student, I'm pretty sure everyone must have a desire to obtain something great in their life and that includes me too! Besides gaining knowledge, we as student enter the college with the hope to have a successful carrier in the future. But before we achieve that, we must be a successful student first. So that we can carry out proudly the certificate that we get from the college to applied job as we want.

Here are some of the characteristics of successful students that we can follow:

• LEARNING STYLES

There are 3 learning styles that our lecturer shared with us: 

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: LEARNING STYLES INVENTORY

MY RESULT :

                                            ⇮⇮VISUAL STYLE IS MY HIGHEST SCORE! 

💥SUMMARY:-
My highest score based on the inventory result above is on VISUAL LEARNING STYLE! 👀 That means I am a visual learner. I can easily understand something by visualizing it in my head. As an example, when I read about one of the science processes, I usually imagine it in my head. So that I can learn it more effectively. 

Based on my lecturer, the visual learners have strong visualization skills and can remember objects, shapes and pictures. This learner can see pictures in their mind.

TOPIC 2: GOAL SETTINGS

DATE: 7th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2
LECTURER: Sir Zul Adlan bin Mohd Hir

This is our second topic. A goal. When I was a child, a goal for me is that 'football goal'. It because I don't know the specific meaning of the word 'goal' since I have none before. Now, when I have grown up, I have several types of goals that I want to achieve. 

• WHAT IS 'GOAL'?
• Goals are the ends toward which we direct our effort. In other words, goals are things we want to achieve.
• Goals are very important in this new phase of life because they can help motivate you to do work, attend classes and study for exams. 
• A life without any goal will make us become lost because it just an empty life without no direction.

GOLDEN RULES OF GOAL

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: WRITING EFFECTIVE GOAL STATEMENTS – THE FIVE STEP APPROACH

TOPIC 3: TIME MANAGEMENT

DATE: 7th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2
LECTURER: Sir Zul Adlan bin Mohd Hir

• WHAT IS TIME?
• Noun – the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future
• Verb – plan, schedule, or arrange when something should happen or be done

• 5 STRATEGIES (STUDY SYSTEM)

• PROCRASTINATION

To be honest, this is my first time hearing the word 'procrastination'. But I'm pretty sure the 'procrastination' behavior is not rare among us. Let me share with you guys what is 'procrastination' mean:

Based on my lecturer, the procrastination is the act of putting off intentionally the doing of something that should be done or in other words, it was the behavior of delaying the work that should be done. 

If we keep postponing our task, we will feel the stress of doing work at the last minute. This will make the quality of work become low.

• HOW TO MANAGE TIME?
• We should learn to prioritize thing that important
• In this technology era, we can create a time management system using the application tools on our smartphone. As an example, using the calendar app, to set up important dates.
• We must get rid of any source of distractions that will make us become unfocus doing something important.

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: SCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW 

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: FIXED-COMMITMENT CALENDAR 

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: DESIGNATING PRIORITIES

TOPIC 4: GETTING TO KNOW THE CAMPUS

DATE: 14th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2
LECTURER: Madam Norihan Binti Hj Yahya

There are 6 Faculties in UiTM Cawangan Pahang, Kampus Jengka

1. FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE
2. FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
3. FACULTY OF ACCOUNTANCY
4. FACULTY OF SPORT SCIENCE AND RECREATION
5. FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
6. FACULTY OF PLANTATION AND AGROTECHNOLOGY

These are three major types of resources that have in Kampus Jengka: 

• PERPUSTAKAAN AL-BUKHARI, KAMPUS JENGKA

OPERATING HOURS:

BORROWING AND RETURNING

LOST ITEM

ZONE IN LIBRARY

IT ROOM

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

WHAT IS 'APA'?

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: VIDEO ASSIGNMENT: INTRODUCING CAMPUS

So here is my group's video. Check it out! :

https://youtu.be/lN6CwxY7aIE

TOPIC 5: MEMORY, LEARNING AND IMPROVING CONCENTRATION

DATE: 14th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2
LECTURER: Madam Noorihan Binti Hj Yahya

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: WHERE ARE YOU NOW? 

MY RESULT :

• MEMORY AND LEARNING
• THE LEARNING PYRAMID

• THE CONE OF LEARNING

• MEMORY PROCESSES
• BRAIN VS MEMORY
• BRAIN is an organ, like computer hardware
• MEMORY is the mind stores to remembers information, just like computer software.
• THE STORAGE ( RETAINING INFORMATION) 🧠 💬When we learn and remember something, our brain will encode, store and retrieve information in our memory just like a computer. 💻 💬There are 3 types of memory:

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: TRY SOME ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES

In this activity, we need to remember the 10 words that were been showed in the video during the lecture.

MEMORY STRATEGIES

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: WHERE ARE YOU NOW? 

MY RESULT:

STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE CONCENTRATION:

• CONCENTRATION means focusing attention on what you're doing.
• HOW TO IMPROVE OUR CONCENTRATION :
  

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: CONCENTRATION CHART

• READING/STUDY SYSTEM (SQ3R)
• S - SURVEY
• Q - QUESTION
• 3R - READ, RECITE, REVIEW

TOPIC 6: TAKING LECTURE NOTES

DATE: 16th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2

• WHAT IS NOTE TAKING?📔🖊
• Writing down ideas from lecturers and readings in our own mind

• MATERIALS FOR NOTE TAKING
• Here are some materials that my lecturer share with us that we can use to take notes in the class:

• WHY TAKE LECTURE NOTES?
• The main point of taking lecture notes is it helps us remember the topic better. This is because, after class, we can recall what has been learned by reading the notes.
• It helps us to organize the information that been told in the lecture and this will help us to identify the core of important ideas in some topics. So, we can understand the lecture more clearly.
• We can save our time because we didn't need to open the textbook all the time just to recall the information that we need. Besides, we just need to go through our notes to study for the quiz, tests and final exam.

• HOW TO TAKE NOTES EFFECTIVELY?
• These are several ways had been shared by my lecturer on how to to take notes effectively.
• DATE - This is very important. Do not forget to write the date for every note we taking.
• SPACE - This will make the note looks neat.
• LABEL - Label every note to make us easily find whenever we need to read it.
• ABBREVIATIONS - We can use abbreviations or symbols when we writing notes to save space and time.
  
  

• OUTLINE - We should outline the main ideas and example in the notes to make us read easily.
• LANGUAGE - This is our own notes. We can use our own language to make us understand clearly.
• EFFECTIVE NOTE TAKING SYSTEM

• CORNELL NOTE - TAKING METHOD

• MAPPING METHOD

• OUTLINING NOTE METHOD



• TABLE NOTE METHOD

TOPIC 7: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PERFORMANCE

DATE: 16th Aug 2019
VENUE: Dewan Kuliah 2
LECTURER: Madam Wan Noni Afida Binti Ab Manan

In this class, we learned more about plagiarism from our lecturer, Madam Wan Noni. She explained to us what is plagiarism means and how to avoid it.

WHAT IS 'PLAGIARISM' ?

Plagiarism is "an act of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author."

For your information, UiTM has its own way to detect any plagiarism in the student's work.

HOW TO AVOID 'PLAGIARISM'

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: PARAPHRASING PRACTICE QUIZ

🔺My score for this quiz is 2/2 💥 That means I can compare paraphrases of the same text to the original and decide whether it plagiarism or not.

For the next topic, our lecturer explained to us about the meaning of GPA & CGPA and show us how to calculate them.

WHAT ARE GPA AND CGPA?

• GPA stands for Grade Point Average. GPA is the grade that student earns on each semester

• CGPA stands for Cumulative Grade Point Average. It was the overall grade that the student earns after divided by the number of semesters.

FORMULA OF GPA AND CGPA

FAILURE AND DISMISSAL

Students with extremely unsatisfactory academic performance will/can be dismissed from his/her study. The status of Dismissed (D) that can be given to students include this Academic Status:

🖉ACTIVITY🖉: CALCULATING CGPA