GOAL SETTING AND LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Assalamualaikum to all my readers, this would be my last entry for this UED102 studyskill subject. So for this week, we all been lectured by NOORAMIRA SYAZWANI ABD. RAHMAN. This week for our last topic is about GOAL SETTING AND LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. ENJOY! 

WHAT IS GOAL?

-          The object of a person’s ambition or effort, an aim or desired result going to a law school as for example.

-          The destination of a journey

-          Literally it means a point marking the end of a race

GOAL SHOULD BE

            S pecific

            M easureable

            A chievable

            R ealictic

            T ime based

This particular topic will focus on how to achieve one’s goal. Goal are the end towards which we direct our effort.

Goal are important in varsity life because they help to motivate you to do work, attend classes and study for the exam.

Even though you already may have set some goals before in your life, chances are you thought little about whether those goals were realistic.

CHARACTER OF GOALS

-          Goals should be self-chosen

-          It should be realistics

-          It supposed to be moderately challenging

-          It have to be measurable

-          Your goal should be more specific

-          It got to has a finite(having limits or bounds)

-          Positive

ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL GOALS

What are your academic goals?

-          My academic goals are to get a consistent GPA of 3.5 and  above for every semester.

-          Further my other interest in design at the University Arts of London (UAL)

What are your personal goals?

-          My personal goals are to go travel backpacking around Asia.

-          Perform Hajj with my family.

What do you want to achieve by joining the course that you have chosen?

-          I want to be employ by an international company in business management.

WRITING EFFECTIVE GOALS STATEMENT

(THE 5 STEP APPROACH) 

Step 1 : Write down what you want

Step 2: Write down any obstacles

Step 3: Write down any resources

Step 4: Review and revise your goal statement

Step 5: Polish your goal statement

Of course I have a lot of goals that I want to accomplish in my life and one of them is to go travel backpacking around the world. Well, it seems kind of impossible but if you truly believed in your dream/ goal, insya Allah it will become a reality. My obstacles that prevent me from achieving my dream are my own knowledge, like how much knowledge I know about the world and do I have the courage to go backpacking. 

LIBRARY AND CAMPUS RESOURCES

2. Library And Campus Resources

On our second class, we narrowed down into our designated classes. We finally met everybody in the class and get to know our class adviser , Miss Nur  Fatihah Muhammad. We introduces ourselves, our name, what course are we in, and where do we came from. After the ice breaking, we continued with our topic of the week, Library and Campus Resources.

I learnt how to citation on a book or author in support of a fact. For example, Salahuddin Abdullah,Omar Kalid,(2009),Tafsir Mubin (jilid 1),Kuala Lumpur; Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. Furthermore, we also been taught by Miss Nur Fatihah Muhammad on how to search for wanted books at the library by using the web OPAC. Web OPAC in anOnline Public Access Catalogue which allows the students to avail the services of the library online. Next, we also been taught on how to borrow the books from library.

THE FLOW OF PROCESS FOR BORROWING BOOK.

1)      Select the books that you want to borrow

2)      Bring the library card,

3)      Bring a book along with library card to the library staff

4)      You allowed only borrowed 20 books at one time!

This library has 7 staffs consists of 5 librarian assistants and 2 librarians. It is a 3-storey building and my favorite level is the second level because it has more sitting area and books compare to other level.

EFFECTIVE NOTES TAKING SYSTEM

THE CORNELL NOTE TAKING SYSTEMS

-          Excellent format setting up a note page.

-          Requires and 8 inches X 11 inches notebook

-          Has recall/cue column and summary column on below page.

 THE CORNELL TAKING METHOD

NOTES – This section where you should take your notes during the course of the lecture. Use bullets, sentences, short form while taking the notes.

CUES – Question, main points, visual clues and other clues.

SUMMARY – To summarize all of the notes on that particular page.

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN NOTES?

HEADINGS – always note main points that are made during lecture.

DETAILS –any facts and explanations that explain the main points mentioned.

LISTEN FOR ALL DETAILS

-          definitions word for word if lecturer repeats them several  times.

-          Enumerations and lists of things that are discussed.

-          Examples related to general headings.

-          Anything that is repeated and spelled out.

-          Written on whiteboard and on a PowerPoint slide.

DISCUSSION CLASSES

-          Some lectures prefer the discussion format when teaching.

-          Can easily take note on a discussion by writing down the main question posed.

-          Then jog down the various points that are made during the class.

MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE CLASS

-          Taking notes in math and science class requires strategies.

-          It is helpful to write the problem on the left sides of note page and anything the lecturer says about on the right side.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

-          Use the headings and subheadings in the power point presentations to organize your notes.

-          Copy the headings and subheadings into your notes.

-          Listen to what the lecturer says about the slide and take notes.

ONLINE LECTURER NOTES

-          Some lecturer choose to post their lecture notes on the course web sites prior to or after the lecture.

-          You can simply print the notes either before or after class.

-          You use the lecturer’s notes to build some background knowledge prior to the lecture.

-          Use the online notes to edit your notes.

REVIEWING YOUR NOTES

RECITE FROM THE HEADINGS

-          You can review notes by using the headings to prompt memory.

-          After reciting your notes aloud, cover the information under each

-          heading and try to recall all of the points.

-          Check notes to see whether you missed anything.

-          This method helps you learn the material in a integrated way.

RECITE FROM THE RECALL

-          When you know the information in your notes, use the recall questions to test your memory of the main points and supporting details.

-          This review method helps you learn the material in an isolated way.

-          You learn specific answers to specific questions.

TALK ABOUT THE INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

-          Another to study is to talk about it.

-          Putting the information in your own words and explaining it to others to move it into long term memory.

-          Get together with your friends to review your notes.

-          You can take turns discussing the information predicting additional test questions and quizzing each other.

-          You can also teach the material to someone.

Time management and organizational skills

TIME MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

Lectured by NURSYAHIDA BINTI ZULKIFLI

Okay guys, so for this week everything is based on organization and how to manage your time wisely. As time is the most precious thing to all of us we have to value time as we valued other important things.

DEFINITION OF TIME

Noun- The indefinite continues progress of existence and events past, present and future.

Verb- plan, schedule, or arrange (when something) should be happen or done.

DEFINITION OF TIME MANAGEMENT

-          The ability to use one’s time effectively or productively, especially at work.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME 

-          The importance of time we can analyse from the Hadiths and Surah in the Quran.  This show that even in Islam, time is valuable and crucial for those who use it wisely.

Narrated Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Apostle as saying, ‘Do not abuse Time, for it is Allah Who is the Time.’ Sahih Muslim.

Ibn ‘Abbas narrated that the Messenger of Allah s.a.w. said “Two favors that many of the people squander are health and free time.” (Sahih)

“By time. Indeed, mankind is in loss.  Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience.”

(Surah Al-Asr)

5 STRATERGIES (STUDY SYSTEM)

·         Weekly schedule – by doing a weekly schedule I can see what are the main event are going on within that week. It helps me to be prepared the day before the event.

·         Daily planner – daily planner is an essential for me as a student to keep me organized with my daily chores and the assignments that needed to be done.

·         Semester calendar

·         Academic vs. Personal life – This takes a lot of effort because living far away from home and family is pretty hard, at the same time I have to focus on my studies as a college student. But this will take time and effort to balance between Academic life and Personal life.

·         Avoid procrastination! – That one thing that I always do is procrastinating, I think I have to find a way to make me feel driven to finish my work on time and stop delaying or giving any excuses. It takes a great major of discipline to avoid procrastinating and start doing my job right away.

WHAT IS PROCRASTINATION?

·         Procrastination is the act of putting off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.

PROCRASTINATION CYCLE

THE REASONS OF PROCRASTINATION

·         Perfectionist – one’s need everything to be done on the exact same way could buy off some time to do it because if one thing isn’t complete then it will put up other work.

·         Avoid failure

·         Avoid success

·         Being rebellious

·         Feeling overwhelmed

·         Lazy

THE REMEDY OF PROCRASTINATION

·         GO BACK TO YOUR INITIAL GOAL!

·         Alert to the deadlines

·         Prioritized on the main thing instead of minor things.

·         Self-rewards after finish your goal.

ADVANTAGE OF BEING ORGANIZED

·         Great outcome

·         We will know what to do in future

·         Soft skill will increase

·         Keep on schedule and meet deadline

·         Reduce stress (we in control!)

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TIME?

·         By using the applications on my phone, I manage to organize my time wisely. Examples of some applications that I used are calendar, alarm, reminder, planner , Onenotes and Gmail.

·         By using a physical planner book. It depends on people on how they like to plan things. But for me, I like to write down things that needed to be done so that it will stay in my head longer.

·         I don’t always bring my planner with me so what I did was I kept thinking of things that needed to be done in earlier times. I like to think/ organized things that matters in my head because it’s a lot easier and safe time too.         

·         Make the Prophet Muhammad and his companions as an example of my daily life, and here’s a video on how successful people at the beginning of time organized their time wisely.

sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1TbTV5Z-cQ&t=60s , 

ACADEMIC INTERGRITY AND PERFORMANCEs

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

·         Many students are unintentionally guilty of plagiarism when they write reports, assignments and research papers.

·         PLAGIARISM = 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.

 PLAGIARISM

®    Turning in someone else’s work as your own.

®    Copying words and ideas from someone else without giving credit.

®    Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.

®    Giving incorrect information about the sources of a quotation.

®    Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you giving credit or not.

®    Changing words or copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.

    

HOW TO PREVENT PLAGIARISM

PLANNING YOUR PAPERS Consult your instructor/ lecturer Plan your paper. Take effective notes

WHEN WRITING YOUR PAPER Cite sources Make it clear who said that Know how to paraphrase Evaluate your sources Include a reference page

THE PROCESS OF PARAPHRASE

·         Read Carefully.

·         Make sure you understand

·         Go away and take a break (to let the information process).

·         Return to rewrite in your own words without looking. Make sure to change grammar.

·         Check to see differences between the original and with the one you write.

·         Cite the paraphrase text especially when it is new information to you. If it is common knowledge then there is no need to cite.

REMEMBER!

*when paraphrasing, look at the vocabulary and the grammar!

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES

Calculating GPA

·         The final examination results and assesments at the end of every semester are assigned a GPA amd CGPA which represents a student’s academic achievement.

·         A GPA refers to the calculated average of the letter grades a student earns in each semester following a 0 to 4.0 scale.

How to Calculate Pointer?

Subject		Kredit	Gred	Mata Nilai	Jumlah Mata Nilai
1	Programming For Engineers	3	B	3.00	9.00
2	Statics	3	B	3.00	9.00
3	Thermodynamics I	3	A-	3.70	11.10
4	Laboratory I	2	A-	3.70	7.40
5	Calculus	2	B-	2.70	5.40
6	English For Academic Communication	2	B-	2.70	5.40
7	Islamic And Asian Civilization I	2	B+	3.30	6.60

Pengiraan GPA Bagi Semester 1 :-

GPA	=	Hasil tambah semua Jumlah Mata Nilai
		Hasil tambah semua kredit

GPA	=	9.00+9.00+11.10+7.40+5.40+5.40+6.60
		3+3+3+2+2+2+2

GPA	=	53.90
		17

GPA sem 1	=	3.17

Keputusan Semester 2

Subject		Kredit	Gred	Mata Nilai	Jumlah Mata Nilai
1	Dynamics	3	B	3.00	9.00
2	Engineering Drawing	3	B+	3.30	9.90
3	Material Science	3	C-	1.70	5.10
4	Engineering Mathematics	3	B-	2.70	8.10
5	Islamic And Asian Civilization II	2	B-	2.70	5.40
6	Swimming I	1	A	4.00	4.00

Pengiraan GPA Bagi Semester 2 :-

GPA	=	Hasil tambah semua Jumlah Mata Nilai
		Hasil tambah semua kredit

GPA	=	9.00+9.90+5.10+8.10+5.40+4.00
		3+3+3+3+2+1

GPA	=	41.50
		15

GPA sem 2	=	2.77

Pengiraan CGPA Bagi Semester 1:-
Untuk semester pertama, nilai CGPA dan GPA adalah sama kerana purata diperoleh dengan mengira keputusan satu semester sahaja iaitu semester 1. Oleh itu CGPA = GPA untuk semester pertama sahaja.

CGPA	=	Hasil tambah semua Jumlah Mata Nilai bagi semua semester
		Hasil tambah semua kredit bagi semua semester

CGPA	=	53.90
		17

CGPA sem 1	=	3.17

Pengiraan CGPA Bagi Semester 2 :-
 Pada semester kedua, nilai CGPA diperoleh dengan mendapatkan purata bagi keputusan kedua-dua semester iaitu semester 1 dan 2.

CGPA	=	Hasil tambah semua Jumlah Mata Nilai bagi semua semester
		Hasil tambah semua kredit bagi semua semester

CGPA	=	53.90+41.50
		17+15

CGPA	=	95.40
		32

CGPA sem 2

=

2.98

FAILURE AND DISMISSAL

·         Students with extremely unsatisfactory academic performance will be dismissed from his/her study.

The status of Dismissed (D) that can be given to students include:





Source: http://sgkkclo.blogspot.my/2011/05/cara-nak-kira-gpa-dan-cgpa. , https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjAsK7s8P3UAhWMOI8KHY4rCvAQjRwIBw&url=%2Furl%3Fsa%3Di%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dimages%26cd%3D%26cad%3Drja%26uact%3D8%26ved%3D%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.saljuhumairah.com%252F2012%252F04%252Fproses-dan-prosedur-rayuan-meneruskan.html%26psig%3DAFQjCNFCaFs_IbsMLXPq-P-VAd1XzGq9yA%26ust%3D1499747204725992&psig=AFQjCNFCaFs_IbsMLXPq-P-VAd1XzGq9yA&ust=1499747204725992