Performance

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POINTER



HOW TO CALCULATE GPA AND CGPA ?




ACADEMIC STATUS



Love from me, Athirah Yusli 😊


“Talent without working hard is nothing.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

Academic Integrity

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PLAGIARISM




Plagiarism is an unlawful act of copying someones website content - be it in any form - and republishing it without giving due credit.

HOW TO PREVENTING FROM PLAGIARISM ?

• Planning your paper

          -commit your lecturer

          -plan your paper

          -take effective notes

• Writing your paper

         -cite your sources

         -make it clear who said what

         -know how to paraphrase

         -evaluate your sources

        -include a reference page

Using APA SYSTEM to do references.

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES

When writes citation you should be denoted with the author's surname and the year of publication. While for references, you should be listed in alphabetical order and will be appear at the of the manuscript.

Love from me, Athirah Yusli 😊

“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic” - Pablo Picasso Source: Worldofquotes.com Source : en.writecheck.com

Taking Lecturer Notes

Hye and Assalamualaikum.

While taking notes we need to a strategies as well. To taking an effective note you should write down ideas from your lecturer and reading it on our own words. We can use abbreviation. Those are some useful abbreviation given by my lecturer :

We need to always be prepared for attend certain class. 

HOW CAN WE BE PREPARE FOR CLASS ?

• You can do pre-reading and homework
• Do review the syllabus that you going to study in class
• You should look up key words prior to class
• You also should had plan on listening 80% of the time and 20% of the time
• The date must be write at the top of your notes paper
• When writing notes,you should leave some spaces between the lines so that you add information

In the class you need to OBSERVE your lecturer. Those are a few key action that you can observe from your lecturer :

• You must be alert to REPETITION

          - make a note when your lecturer repeats a specific point

• You must WATCH the board or projector 

          - the material is important if the lecturer writes something down

• You must notice your lecturer's INTEREST level 

          -If you see your lecturer is excited on certain thing or topic, it is likely to be on an exam

• You must let go of JUDGMENTS about your lecturer styles

          -don't let your attitude about your lecturer's style get in the way of your education

There will be time when your lecturer isn't too interesting. Nobody is perfect. There will be time when we will moody. Those are some tips to help you when this happens :

• when your attention is slipping, pay attention to the ACT of writing
• you can ask questions - sometimes, the question you think is 'dumb' is on the mind of several classmates
• you can also be a volunteer for demonstrations and discussions 
• you should sit in front of the room because :

           - it is hard to fall asleep

           -the board is easier to read

           -the lecturer can see you more clearly

           -you are declaring your willingness to take a  risk and participate

WHY DO WE NEED TO TAKING NOTE ?

This is because taking notes during class will help us to :

• pay attention in class
• easy to study when having quiz, test or final exam
• improve our memory
• take ownership of ideas
• engage our  senses
• easy for us to process and organize all the data and information

Sometimes, the lecturer will test on the students on how well the students can captures given info. So taking notes saving us from lecturer's test and also help the lecturer to spot who didn't pay attention during his/her class.

After taking the notes, it's nothing if you didn't review back what have you wrote in class. You can't only read your notes when near your exam or a day before you're having test or final exam.


WHY DO YOU NEED TO REVIEW YOUR NOTE ?

• Firstly, we will lose 80% of  what we hear
• Secondly, its will help us to identify any questions
• Lastly, there will be not enough time for us to absorb everything in a short time

HOW DO WE REVIEW AFTER CLASS ?

• We must review the notes along with the book
• We should creates our own examples
• We also can compared our notes with others
• We should re-write our notes
• We should practice those skills that we want to develop
• If not sure, we can ask the lecturer for clarification

Always remember SQ4R

HOW TO WRITE A NOTE ?

1. Outlining

2. Mapping method

3. Sentence method





3. Cornell notes






Love from me, Athirah Yusli 😊


" If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
- Edgar Allan Poe

Improving Concentration

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FORGET AND REMEMBER

Why do people have memory loss ? This is because of the impact on the head. So, do not play or hit your head. You might injured your head and suffer from loss memory.

WHY DO WE ALWAYS FORGET ?

• distraction
• concentration
• time factor (time manager)

EASY TO REMEMBER IF ...

• interest
• choice
• rehearse
• practice

HOW FORGETTING COULD OCCUR ?

• Not pay attention during class
• Not understand
• Didn't have a good strategies
• Cramming (last minute study)
• Interference (having two or more exam in the same day)
• Test anxiety (negative thought about oneself, did not prepare well for the test)

CONCENTRATION

Concentration is focusing in what you're doing. Concentration is really important especially during reading, listening and studying. 

CAUSES OF POOR CONCENTRATION :

• Lack of attention, interest and motivation
• Get distraction from others
• Study at uncomfortable environment
• Having physiological matters (illness / tiredness)
• Having psychological matters (personal problems / anxiety / worries)

STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE CONCENTRATION :

• You can give yourself motivational and do a organizational strategies
• You can also create a such positive learning environment
• Before start your study, try to deal with your internal distraction
• You should use an active learning strategies
• You should be matching your learning styles and the tasks you have
•  You should also always monitoring your concentration level

HOW TO IMPROVE MEMORIZE AND CONCENTRATION ?

1. Massed practice VS. Spaced practice
    - When an individual study non-stop without having a break even a while is called MASSED
      PRACTICE. When individual is having a short break during his/her study is called SPACED
      PRACTICE.

2. Break reading material down
    - You should not force yourself to study everything in one day. You maybe can study 2 chapter
      only per day. So that you will have time to revise back what you have study. You also would not
      easily forget what have you study on that day.

3. Rehearsal
    - After study you should repeating all the information many time

4. Elaboration Strategies

    a) Associations - 'connect ' each word or event with a person, place,  thing, picture, feeling or situation

    b) Acronyms/Catchwords - example as the position of the planets from the sun :

    c) Imagery - you need to visualize the picture of the information

    d) Organizational strategies - you can organized the information that you have according to their type




5. SQ³R

Love from me, Athirah Yusli 😊


“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell

Memory Learning

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MEMORY VS. BRAIN

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEMORY AND BRAIN ?

BRAIN is one of an organ inside our body. While MEMORY is an information that we stored in our brain. This is mean our memory is inside our brain.
We can also defined that memory as our SOFTWARE and brain as our HARDWARE.

Memory can be divided into three :

• sensory memory - memory that related to the storage of temporary information brought by our senses.
• short term memory - a process that allows information to be received and stored within 30 seconds to 24                                        hours
• long term memory - memorizes something for a long time and has the ability to recall

RECALL

Recall is the weakness to 'call back' the information that has been stored in long term memory. It's also synonym with the word ' FORGET '. Genius people is the person who can RECALL what have been stored in their long term memory. If you want to be a genius, your brain must be potential to strengthen with stimulate, train, bury, maintain and invigorate the brain through modern and traditional method.

Those are some activities that we had during class to test our brain and memory :

1. You need to say the color instead of the words

2. In your opinion, how many bars are there ?

To do well on exam you must have effective study plan, active study strategies and a good memory.

According to some psychologists, this is how we collect information to memory.

Love from me, Athirah Yusli 😊

“If you wish to forget something on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” 
– Edgar Allen Poe

Getting To Know The Campus

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As I said in my previous post, I was a student of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Pahang Campus Jengka. My group is given a task to do a video about our campus. The topic was ' 5 INTERESTING PLACES IN UiTM CAMPUS JENGKA ' . This is the link to watch our video. I hope you will enjoy watching this video . Enjoy!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVE_DQy7WE&t=45s



Love from me, Athirah Yusli  😊


“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” 
― Leonardo da Vinci

Goal Setting

Hye and Assalammualaikum.

Today I'll post about my goal setting in university.

Setting a goal is a MUST. It's really important for us to set our goal. A GOAL SETTING is defined as something that you want to accomplish and establishing. To set a goal,  you can use SMART formula.

For me, my goal is I would like to complete my studies in the Diploma Program Management and Technology Office with a CGPA of 4.0 per semester within 2½ years. I will also continue my studies until the PhD level to achieve my dream to be a LECTURER.

But I do have one more goal that I set which is the most important goal. For this one, if you want to know what is the most important goal for myself, you need to watch this following video. So, enjoy!!!

                                         

Love from me, Athirah Yusli 😊

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins