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CHAPTER 4 & CHAPTER 5

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  CHAPTER 4: TIME MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS Time management is super important especially to university's students! And to achieve that, there's multiple ways to step up your time management skills. Five strategies to develop a successful system of study: 1. Use a weekly timetable. 2. Make use of a daily schedule 3. Use a semester schedule 4. Balance academic with social, and personal responsibilities 5. Avoid putting things off. From my perspective, the last strategy is a bit challenging to implement as students are well-known to procrastinate until the very last minute. But if we really want to achieve our goal, we have to change that mindset. 👍 Why did people procrastinate? 1. A perfectionist 2. Excessive planning 3. Unclear goals. 4. Not making a plan in advance  5. Not knowing what to do  6. Laziness How to overcome being a 'successful' procrastinator? 1.  Break tasks into manageable steps. 2. Commit to a tiny first step. 3. Give yourself permissio...

CHAPTER 6 & CHAPTER 7

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CHAPTER 6: TAKING LECTURE NOTES   Lecture notes? Is it important? College academic achievement is mostly dependent on taking effective notes in class. Actively taking notes in class might improve you in concentrating and improving your understanding. Your active listening, content understanding, and memory will all increase with effective note-taking! It's also important to read the notes before class. This will help in your understanding of the subject. Get yourself familiar with concepts and vocabulary too! ☝ Here's a result of my note taking strategies task! For this task, I got 6 out of 10 points, which is better than the previous task. However, I also need to improve my strategy in note-taking. 👌 There's this one method of note-taking that's really famous among students! It's called 'The Cornell Method'. What's Cornell Method? Cornell note-taking is a popular note-taking method for taking, organizing, and summarizing notes. This method typically re...

CHAPTER 2 & CHAPTER 3

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  CHAPTER 2:  GOALS SETTING & LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A goal is  an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan and commit to achieve .  By setting deadlines, people try to accomplish their goals in a limited amount of time. What about setting a goal? 1. You need to have a clear objective. 2. You must have a deadline for completing your goal. 3. You must write down your goal. 4.You must create a strategy to achieve your objective. 5. You must make a sacrifice. 6. You must acknowledge your objective each day. In order to set your goal right and making it achievable, there's this rules called 'Golden Rules'. For this chapter, we have to create our own goal map using the five golden rules as shown above. ☝ As for mine: However, it's also important to know your own strengths and weaknesses! Recognizing your worth will help in achieving goals you set because you'll know your own capability. Weaknesses aren't meant to ...

INTRODUCTION & CHAPTER 1

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INTRODUCTION Assalamualaikum and hello everyone! My name is Nurul Amirah binti Mohd Sharizal. I'm from Rawang, Selangor and I took my SPM at SMK Taman Bunga Raya (1). In 2022, I got the chance to further my studies as an undergraduate student of Diploma Science (AS120) at UiTM Tapah, Perak. My main purpose of doing this e-portfolio is to introduce one of my subjects for this semester, which is UED102.  First of all, what exactly is UED102? Better known as Study Skills course, it is an important learning skill for every student in going through university life well. It exposes students to basic academic skills; e.g. effective time management  which would help students  cope with academic demands at the tertiary level. In this subject, we'll get to learn seven chapters which are: Chapter 1: Getting Ready To Learn Chapter 2: Goals Setting & Learning Management System Chapter 3: Library & Campus Resources Chapter 4: Time Management & Organizational Skills Chapter ...