STUDY SKILLS

INTRODUCTION

Assalamualaikum and Hello everyone! Finally  Minggu Destini Siswa (MDS) had finished after one week it was held. MDS was so fun cause there were a lot of activities that handle by our senior (part 2 and above). After MDS finished we has started our INTERIM week before we enter the sem 1. INTERIM is a week that help students to get know more about UITM JENGKA. We  also got to know the lecturer early before we enter the sem 1. 

INTERIM SCHEDULE

Next i wanna introduce about myself. My name is Nor Azrina binti Zonkoflie. You can call me Azrina. I lived in Maran,Pahang and it's so fun cause my house and UiTM Jengka quite near. I'm so grateful to Allah cause i still can continue my studies in UiTM. I continued my study in course Diploma of Accounting I'm a bit scared to take this course cause I didn't have any of accounting basic but I'll do well for the sake of my future. Okay I've done with my introduction now i wanna tell you about study skills that I've learned in UiTM Jengka. Hope you can get some tips from my sites and have fun 😊.

TOPIC 1 - Getting Ready To Learn
DATE: 070819
VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 1

LECTURER: PUAN SABARIAH BINTI JAMALUDIN

Before we started the learning, we have a ice breaking session. I've never experience this kind of ice breaking it's a new one that handle by madam Sabariah. We need to find 5 different people from 5 types that given. It was very interesting and fun cause we need to move to find 25 different people in 10 minutes. After that madam Sabariah continued the lesson session about making transsion from school to university. There were a lot of differences!!

activiity 1

ignore my ugly handwriting cause i need to rush

a)5 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL	UNIVERSITY
Uniform for school you need to wear school uniform from head to toes. Etc; For boys they need to wear white t-shirt and trousers and for girls they need to wear ‘baju kurung’ everyday.	Uniform for university you just can wear casual shirt that based on “sahsiah rupa diri” Etc; Monday and Friday you need to wear formal unifrom. Tuesday until Thursday you can wear whatever you want.
You need to wake up early in the morning everyday. Etc; 5-6 a.m	You will wake up if you have class on that day normally class will start on 8 a.m.
You need to bring a lot of stuff. Etc; textbook,writing book,pencil book,colour,	You just bring less stuff. Etc; pen,book,notebook/paper
The schedule was pack until evening. You have class from morning till evening.	The schedule wasn’t pack at all. You could only have 3 or 2 class in one day.
In school everything already given by teacher. Etc; homework,notes	In university everything you do by your own. You need to do it by yourself if you want to success.

Next, was about Learning Style.  My indicate preferred Learning Style was KINESTHETIC STYLE. Who with me put your hands up hehe just kidding. Here's some type of Learning Style. After that we had learnt a few steps to succes in university. Thanks to madam Sabariah cause the steps very useful and helpful.

This is my result

8 STEPS TO SUCCESS IN UNIVERSITY

• Attend all classes
• Became an active learner
• Participate in class such as answering or asking question
• Get to know and closer with your lecturer
• Form a study group
• Use a planner or makes your own schedule
• Stay up to DATE with your work
• Be receptive to change

TOPIC 2; Goal Settings

DATE: 070819

VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 1

LECTURER: PUAN SABARIAH BINTI JAMALUDIN


WHAT IS GOAL?
goal means something that we want to archive in our life! Goal very important in our life because they help you to motivate yourself to do work or task,attend classes and others.

THE 5 STEPS APPROACH:

Example;

a)MY PERSONAL GOALS

b)OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVE MY GOAL

1. Media distractions
2. To lazy to accomplished work/task
3. Time management
4. Lack of motivation
5. Procrastination

c)RESOURCES THAT AVAILABLE TO YOU

1. Always attend the classes
2. Always asking or answering the question during class session
3. Do homework
4. Make some revision using the notes that you wrote down during the class
5. Form a study group

d)REVIEW AND REVISE YOUR TENTATIVE GOAL STATEMENT

I will do my best to get 3.5 CGPA for every semester with attend all the classes,focus during lesson,submit the assignmnet on time and finish all the work/task that given

e)POLISH YOUR GOAL STATEMENT

• I CAN ACHIEVE MY GOAL WITH FOLLOWING THIS FIVE STEPS AND I WILL TRY MY BEST TO GET DEAN LIST FOR EVERY SEMESTER!!! DEARSELF FIGHTING!!!!!!!💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

TOPIC 3; Time Management And Organizational Skills

DATE: 070819

VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 1

LECTURER: PUAN NUR SYAZWANI BINTI MOHAMMAD FADZILAH

a)WHAT IS TIME MANAGEMENT??

Time management is the ability to use's one time effectively or productively especially at work.

b)5 STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP A SUCCESSFUL SYSTEM OF STUDY

1. Use a weekly schedule
2. Use a daily planner
3. Use a semester calendar
4. Balance academic with social and personal life
5. Avoid procrastination!!(procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing the work)

C)FIXED COMMITMENT CALENDAR

d)JOB TASK ANALYSIS

e)PRIORITIZED-TO-DO LIST

TOPIC 4; Getting To Know UiTM

DATE: 140819

VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 2

LECTURER: PUAN ANIS BARIEYAH BINTI MAT BAHARI

a)TYPE OF RESOURCES

HAL EHWAL PELAJAR

HAL EHWAL AKADEMIK

                                                       

KOLEJ MAT KILAU(siswa)

KOLEJ TOK GAJAH(siswi)

         

b)5 IMPORTANT DEPARTMENTS IN UITM JENGKA

   Here's a link of video that my group and I had done to show you 5 interesting places in UiTM Jengka. Hope you enjoy!!😎😎👾 and don't forget to like and subscribe!!

             https://youtu.be/mtV62PsfxNU

TOPIC 5; Memory Learning And Improving Concentration

DATE: 140819

VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 2

LECTURER: PUAN ANIS BARIEYAH BINTI MAT BAHARI

a)LEARNING PYRAMID

as you can see here teach others has a big percentage in studying. It helps you to memories things easily and also can gain new knowledge too! So don't ever scared to teach others cause it help you alot!


b)5 CAUSES OF POOR CONCENTRATION AND 5 WAYS TO IMPROVE CONCENTRATION

 CONCENTRATION= focusing your attention on what you are doing

5 causes of poor concentration

• lack of attention
• lack of interest
• distractions from others
• uncomfortable environment
• psychological matters - personal problems,worries,anxieties

5 ways to improve concentration

• eat breakfast
• worry about it a little more
• outdoor activities
• observe nature
• don't think!

-ACTIVITY-

Activity 6.1 Concentration strategies

Where Are You Now?

Answer Yes or No to the following questions.

No.	Questions	Answer	Mark
1.	Do you have trouble getting back into your work after you’ve been interrupted?	YES	1
2.	Do you read and study in a noisy, cluttered room?	NO	0
3.	Do you find that even though you schedule study time, you don’t actually accomplish very much?	NO	0
4.	Do you use any strategies to help increase your ability to concentrate?	NO	0
5.	Can you concentrate on your work even if the subject doesn’t interest you?	YES	1
6.	Do you use your preferred learning style when completing assignments?	YES	1
7.	Do you tend to think about personal plans or problems when you are reading and studying?	YES	1
8.	Do you find that when you finish reading your textbook assignment, you don’t really remember what you read?	YES	1
9.	Do you get totally engrossed in the material when you read and study?	NO	0
10.	Do you daydream a lot when you are listening to lectures?	YES	1
	TOTAL		6/10

Note:

1. Give 1 mark if answer is YES.

2. No mark if answer is No.

3. Calculate your marks and covert your marks into %.

4. If you obtained low marks, you need to strategize your concentration.

MY MARKS : 60%

Activity 6.10 Monitor your concentration

Use the chart provided (Figure 6.4, Van Blerkom (2009), page 160 -161) to record up to ten of the concentration problems that your encounter over a one-week period. Include one or more strategies that you used or should have used to improve your concentration. At the bottom, indicate how well your strategies worked.

Date	Study Task	Concentration Problem	Cause	Strategy
07/08/2019	assignment	myself	lazy	Do it together with friends
08/08/2019	assignment	media	Too fun	Give time for study and life
09/08/2019	Taking notes	tired	Doesn’t have enough time	Divide times
10/08/2019	homework	media	Too fun	More effective strategy
11/08/2019	assignment	Too many food	Mood raya on	Im making desicion to rest
12/08/2019	Video ued	Doesnt have any idea	Not so creative	Watch video or find some information
13/08/2019	Module G	Doesnt pay attention	Sitting at the back and can’t see	Try to come early and sit in front
14/08/2019	Module A ; information literacy skills	Media distraction	Too lot of notification came in	Silent your phone
15/08/2019	Module G	Too lazy to came cause it’s the last day	I wanna go home	Remember your parents sacrifices

The strategies that i used work very well cause it depends on myself to do it and it works well and suitable for myself!

c)WHAT IS SQ3R??

• SQ3R is stand for SURYVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW. 
• 
  
• facilitates students think about the text they're reading while they're reading
• It is a comprehension strategy
• helps students "get it" the first time they read a text by teaching students how to read and think like an effective reader

d)WHAT IS SHOR-TERM MEMORY AND LONG TERM MEMORY


MEMORY VS BRAIN =
 *Memory is the ability to store and remembering information(mental process).[COMPUTER SOFTWARE]

*Brain is the organ[COMPUTER HARDWARE]

MEMORY STRATEGIES:

*rehearsal-repeat the infromation many times

*elaboration strategies

*associations-connect each word with person,place,thing

*acronyms/catchwords

*acrostics/cayhphrases

*imagery-visualize the image

*mnemonic-memory tricks,make and easy to remember

*mind mapping-creative and innovative

HOW FORGETTING COULD OCCUR?

• Did not pay attention to the information
• Did not understand the information
• Cramming(last minute study)
• Did not have a good strategies

e)The Human Memory were divided into three :

#SENSORY MEMORY

=allows environmental information to be retained or an ability to take information from our senses

#SHORT-TERM MEMORY

 =memory can store information in a short period

#LONG-TERM MEMORY

 =memory can store information in a long period

ETC; when you get some information (sense memory) you can remember it in a short time(short-term memory) and then you want to keep it as a long-term memory you'll write it down somewhere, repeat or recalling the information and share it with your friends. That's how our memory work! Interesting right?😎😆

Activity 4.1

Answer YES or NO

No.	Questions	Answer	Mark
1.	Do you often know the answer to a question but find that you can’t think of it?	YES	1
2.	Do you organize or group information to help you remember it?	NO	0
3.	After you study, do you go back and test yourself to monitor your learning?	NO	0
4.	Do you make up rhymes or words to help you remember some information?	NO	0
5.	Do you space your practice when reviewing information?	YES	1
6.	Do you try to memorize all the information that you need to know for an exam?	YES	1
7.	Do you often find that you get confused by closely related information?	YES	1
8.	Do you often forget a lot of the information that you studied by the time you take the test?	YES	1
9.	Do you ever remember exam answer after the exam is over?	NO	0
10.	Do you try to remember information just by making up rhyme, word or other memory aid?	YES	1
	TOTAL		6/10

Note:

1. Give 1 mark if answer is YES.

2. No mark if answer is No.

3. Calculate your marks and covert your marks into %.

4. If you obtained low marks, indicate you need to concentrate more.

MARKS : 60%

TOPIC 6; Taking Lecturer Note

DATE: 160819

VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 1

LECTURER: PUAN NORLAILA BINTI MD DIN

 a)WHAT IS NOTE TAKING????

Note taking is writing down the information from lecturer and we read/do it by our own creativities.

b)WHY TAKE NOTES??
cause we lose 80% of what we hear! so TAKING NOTES SO IMPORTANT!!

•  help us to pay attention in class
• help us to study for quiz/test
• help us improve our memory
• help us engage our senses
• help us take ownership of ideas

c)HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR CLASSES?

• do pre-reading and homework
• review syllabus
• preview previous notes
• write down the dates n labels
• leave spaces between the lines to add more information

d)PHYSICALS FACTORS TO GET BETTER NOTES FROM LECTURE

1. Seating - near the front and center cause it'll give better vision and hearing
2. Avoid distraction - doorways, window glare,etc
3. Peers - avoid from chatting with friends during lecture talking in the front

e)HOW DO WE TAKE NOTES? 

EXAMPLES FOR EFFECTIVE NOTE TAKING SYSTEM:


 1. CORNELL METHOD :
a)can be taken quickly
b)it takes a short time to absorb information
c)effective learning and easy way

 

2) MIND MAPPING:
there were a lot of types mind map for me this is more effective cause it' easy and you can add a lot of information in it!

3)OUTLINING METHOD



-ACTIVITY-

-taking out the points-

Development of Double Entry Bookkeeping

The evidence strongly suggests that double entry was the invention of the merchants of the city states of Northern Italy in the late 13^th century. The merchants were less interested in proofs of honesty and more concerned with measuring the results of a series of discrete business ventures carried out by short-lived partnerships. Credit transactions were commonplace, and goods were sent out on consignment. The abacus was in general use and Arabic numerals were sufficiently well known to evoke laws restricting their public use. Paper was becoming relatively cheap and the local Italian vernacular rather than Latin was the language of commercial records.

Annual accounting periods, on the other hand, may have been less useful to the Italian merchants. Profit or loss can be viewed both as a series of discontinuous increments or decrements on discrete ventures or as a more continuous modification to a permanent owner’s investment. Double entry accounting was not essential to provide the information required by these merchants. Why then was it developed? It is possible that the process started a merchant, concerned about keeping track of his goods as well as his cash, both of which he might regard as physical items given monetary values, made a double entry to record a transaction involving both. This was then extended to include assets and liabilities such as debtors and creditors, which although less tangible, may be represented physically by written documents. At this stage, this merchant’s books include both real accounts and personal accounts. Next, the nominal accounts of revenues, expenses, profit or loss and owner’s equity. There is no direct evidence of nominal accounts before 1292.

This achievement of complete double entry system has a few advantages. This system provides the ability to record all relevant economic events in one comprehensive system. In addition, the system also a means of balancing the accounts using a balance account or a trial balance. Further, it is a means to calculate profit or loss and return on investment.

The evidence suggests that until the nineteenth century, the third of these was the least important. Until about the year 1500, double entry was practised by Italians, although they made no attempt to keep it a trade secret. Curiously, however, the earliest surviving examples of double entry came from France and England, although the accounts were kept by Italian merchants in Italian. Both Roman and Arabic numerals were used. The use of paragraph forms, typical of Tuscan merchants, was economically sensible in a period when writing materials was still relatively expensive. The two sided “T” account which later became the norm in manual bookkeeping was developed in Venice and Genoa.

All accounts were struck through with slanting lines, denoting settlement. Apart from the general ledger, there were also a number of account books. Theses have not survived but there were references to them in the general ledger.

There were a “white ledger” (the general ledger kept before the one which has survived), a “red book” containing merchandise accounts, a cloth ledger, an expense ledger and a cash book. There were also memorandum expense books. This was a sophisticated system. The general ledger even contained four accounts for prepaid rent on various properties.

Since the invention of double entry preceded that of printing in the mid-15^th century, the earliest treaties on the subject were in script form, and it is possible, although not proven, that the earliest printed books were based on such manuscripts. The first printed work on double entry bookkeeping was, as is well known, a section in Luca Pacioli’s “Summa de Arithmetica Geometrica Proportioni et Proportionalita” written in Italian and published in Venice in 1494.

Double entry was exported by the Europeans to the rest of the world. One of the earliest North American books entirely devoted to bookkeeping was William Mitchell’s “A new and Complete System of Bookkeeping” published in 1796. A knowledge of double entry was brought to Australia by the British settlers and schools teaching it

 advertised in The Sydney Gazette from 1804 onwards. After Japan was opened up to foreign influences in 1854, double entry bookkeeping was imported simultaneously from several countries.

Source: Text material from Anuar Nawawi and Mohd Nizal Haniff, Study Manual Financial Accounting 1, (Pusat Pendidikan Lanjutan 1997), pp. 9-12.

TOPIC 7; Memory Learning And Improving Concentration

DATE: 160819

VENUE: AL-BIRUNI 2

LECTURER: PUAN ANIS BARIEYAH BINTI MAT BAHARI

a)what is academic integrity??

an act of honesty and responsibility by students to get their own success

b)how UiTM define dishonesty among students

c)what is plagiarism

plagiarism is an act 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.

considered as plagiarism;
i.turning in someone else's works as your own
ii.copying words or ideas from someone else whithout crediting
iii.failing to put quotation in quotitation marks

d)where can you find APA format??

   APA stands for American Psychological Association. APA is a writing style and format for academic documents or assignment such as journal,  book, magazine and articles. It is commonly use in citing resources for assignment.

examples;

e)5 sources of references

APA FORMAT,citation;

1.The author's name 'who'

2.The date of publication 'when'

3.The title of the work 'what'

4.publication of source information 'where'/URL

i)books;

ii)article



iii)journal



iv)website/URL



v)newspaper




PERFORMANCE:

g)calculating grade point average(GPA)

 what is GPA??
-GPA stands for grade point average.  GPA is typically calculated by adding all the number grades students have recieved and divide them by the numbers of credits that students have taken.

#grade value#
grade points = grade value X units earned
GPA = total grade points/total unit earned

what is CGPA??
-CGPA stands for culmulative grade point average
-CGPA is a value that calculated for each final semester or the duration of study. You need to sum your grade points from sem 1.

HOW TO CALCULATE GPA?

#conclusion as you can see SEMESTER 1 is the most important cause it'll effect on your CGPA

Activity:

NAMA PELAJAR : AHMAD SYAMIL ZAKUAN BIN MOHD RAIF

NO.KAD PELAJAR : 2019167123

Semester 1

Bil	Kod	Kursus	Unit Kredit	Gred	Nilai Gred
1	FAR110	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 1	3	A	4.00
2	ECO162	MICROECONOMICS	3	A-	3.67
3	MAT112	BUSINESS MATHEMATICS	3	A	4.00
4	MGT162	FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT	3	B+	3.33
5	ELC121	INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS 1	3	B-	2.67
6	CTU101	FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM	2	B+	3.33
7	HBU111	NATIONAL KESATRIA 1	1	C	2.00
8	UED102	STUDY SKILLS	0	L	L
		Jumlah Jam Kredit / semester	18

Bil	Kod	Kursus	Mata Purata Kursus
1	FAR110	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 1	4.00X3=12.00
2	ECO162	MICROECONOMICS	3.67X3=11.01
3	MAT112	BUSINESS MATHEMATICS	4.00X3=12.00
4	MGT162	FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT	3.33X3=9.99
5	ELC121	INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS 1	2.67X3=8.01
6	CTU101	FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM	3.33X2=6.66
7	HBU111	NATIONAL KESATRIA 1	2.00X1=2.00
8	UED102	STUDY SKILLS	0
		TOTAL	61.67

GPA/CGPA =  61.67/18  

= 3.43 credit

Semester 2

Bil	Kod	Kursus	Unit Kredit	Gred	Nilai Gred
1	FAR160	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 2	3	A	4.00
2	MAF151	FUNDAMENTAL COST ACCOUNTING	3	A+	4.00
3	AIS160	FUNDAMENTAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	3	A	4.00
4	STA104	INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS	3	B	3.00
5	ELC151	INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS II	3	B+	3.33
6	CTU151	ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION	2	A	4.00
7	HBU121	NATIONAL KESATRIA II	1	B	3.00
		Jumlah Jam Kredit / semester	18

Bil	Kod	Kursus	Mata Purata Kursus
1	FAR160	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 2	4.00X3=12.00
2	MAF151	FUNDAMENTAL COST ACCOUNTING	4.00X3=12.00
3	AIS160	FUNDAMENTAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	4.00X3=12.00
4	STA104	INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS	3.00X3=9.00
5	ELC151	INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS II	3.33X3=9.99
6	CTU151	ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION	4.00X2=8.00
7	HBU121	NATIONAL KESATRIA II	3.00X1=3.00
		TOTAL	65.99

PNG = 65.99 /18 

= 3.67 excellent

HPNG = 65.99+61.67 / (18+18)

= 3.55 excellent

Sila berikan jawapan anda:

1. PNG dan HPNG pelajar ini di Semester 3.

Semester 3

Bil	Kod	Kursus	Unit Kredit	Gred	Nilai Gred
1	FAR210	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3	3	B	3.00
2	MAF201	COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 1	3	B+	3.33
3	AIS205	COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING	3	A-	3.67
4	LAW240	INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL LAW	3	C	2.00
5	ELC231	INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS III	3	C	2.00
6	CTU231	FUNDAMENTAL OF ISLAMIC ACCOUNTING	2	C	2.00
7	HBU131	NATIONAL KESATRIA III	1	B	3.00
		TOTAL CREDIT	18

BIL	KOD	KURSUS	MATA PURATA KURSUS
1	FAR210	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3	3.00X3=9.00
2	MAF201	COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 1	3.33X3=9.99
3	AIS205	COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING	3.67X3=11.01
4	LAW240	INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL LAW	2.00X3=6.00
5	ELC231	INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS III	2.00X3=6.00
6	CTU231	FUNDAMENTAL OF ISLAMIC ACCOUNTING	2.00X2=4.00
7	HBU131	NATIONAL KESATRIA III	3.00X1=3.00
		TOTAL CREDIT	48.91

GPA   = 48.91/18

= 2.72 credit

CGPA  = 65.99+61.67+48.91/(18+18+18)

           = 3.27 credit

Before I ending my blog i hope you guys can pray for my 2.5 years in UiTM Jengka and get a good grades for sake of my future. Hope you guys enjoy and get a variable infromation from this blog see you next time in the future. Lastly, FIGHTING 💪💪💪😎😎💪💪💪💪💪💪💖