CHAPTER 3: LIBRARY & CAMPUS RESOURCES.

This is Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak where is located at UiTM Cawangan Pahang Kampus Raub the place that i have been studying for just about 4 months. The library just operated for about 2 years since the UiTM Raub is opened. This library places a lot of books that students can make some revision or assignment. They served many facilities such as wifi, toilet, lift, room for students to make some research on internet and others. 

Students always related with library when it comes to assignment or examination. As a student, we have a close relationship with the library because in the library we can got a various knowledge and resources that sometimes students don't know how to treasure or find.

 Therefore, library provide so many facilities and service to make a good servant and comfort for students. Encik Anwar bin Hassim who is librarian was explained to us what is library and campus resources also how to find a books instead of going to the library. There are many ways for student to a find some resources for their assignment or revision for examination. 

LIBRARY & CAMPUS RESOURCES

• Web OPAC: 

 This web is help you to search a book that you want to find. You can just call number refer on the book cover.

The ways to use this OPAC web is the students must go to the OPAC website library.uitm.edu.my/opac.html . It will be show first our student id and a password. Then, enter your student id and password to log in into the website. After that, click 'journal' and it will be show you a place where you can search a book that you want to find. 

This is the web when you click browse and new addition. 

Call Number :  

• Online Database:

This is an online database that use a technology and the internet to get an information for online. Students can easily and quickly find the resources because the information has been arranged by type of subject and alphabet. Online database provide such as statistics, new articles, conference papers, articles, e-books and journal. For surely, this online database can help students to find some resources for their assignment. 

• EQPS :

EQPS is stand for exam question paper system. This system is usually used by students for them to make 

an exercise instead of homework to add their knowledge in certain subject. Usually, students will do an 

exercise for past question paper to that can help students to familiar with standard exam question paper. 

Students can review at this to find EQPS question.
 library.uitm.edu.my/v3/index.php/laman-utama?id=752

• KKM (Information Skills Class):

KKM or Information Skills Class aim to expose for new students especially students in semester 1 to identify the systems or facilities that available in the library. It will be teach by the librarian or staff working in the library. This class is on the second floor of the library. They will teach the students ways to pay for late payable, book return and borrowing, how to find a book and more. The class will open during office hour and it is free of charge. This class providing facilities such as computers to facilitate learning trips. However, the students need to ask for staff worker's permission before use the computer.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Every library must have their own rules and regulation to make sure that the situation in library 

is not crowded and students also can study in peace without any disturbing. This is an examples or standard rules that students must following: 

1. Students must have to always wear their matrix card for allow them to enter the library. 
2. All the stuff that students bring from outside must placed in the locker or they just can only bring their notebook and pencil case in the library. 
3. Be in the library in a quiet situation without make any noise that can disturb other students. 
4. Students allow to borrow 20 books only. 

The ways to use this OPAC web is the students to go the OPAC website. It will be show first our student id and a password. Then, enter your student id and password to log in into the website. After that, click 'journal' and it will be show you a place where you can search a book that you want to find.

This is a handout that we've got from Encik Anwar during his lecture. 

Books can release your tension.

The power of books.

CHAPTER 7: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PERFORMANCE.

Students especially in university will get more an assignment or homework that they get form their lecturer. Sometimes, their assignment must get some research to do by themselves either at library nor research in web. Unfortunately, not all students will get their research by themselves, maybe they will pay their friend to finish their assignment or just copy their friend's work which is called plagiarism. From there, we knows that integrity effects to your assignment including lecturer in this problem if they are honest or not when they mark student's paper.

Plagiarism is copying the work of others, especially students or taking other people's ideas from various sources such as the internet. It is not based on that when work by ourselves.

The way you want to avoid from plagiarism is you must have reference. You must find reference with make some research at library to find some source for your reference. Compare to novel which is totally different because novelist has their own ideas while student must find source by them self to make their assignment.

There is a way for lecturer to detect if their students steal an idea from another person or they make their assignment by themselves. The lecturer use Turnitin web which is lecturer can measure the student's assignment if their work has a similar with other people's idea or not. So, it easier for lecturer to check the assignment :)

In case if the similarity of student's assignment with other resources is more than 30%, the student's must re-do back their assignment by themselves using their own resources that they have found.

CALCULATING GRADE POINT AVERAGE

First of all, students is related with Grade Point Average (GPA) and Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). So, students must know how to calculate their GPA for make them easy to target their marks to get for Dean List. 

Formula pengiraan GPA: 

GPA Calculation:

GPA WORKSHEET :

"Success is the best revenge."

CHAPTER 5: MEMORY LEARNING & IMPROVING CONCENTRATION.

FOCUSES:

• Understanding memory processes.
• Memory strategies.
• Understanding concentration.

There are many ways for student to learn, memorize and concentrate on studies according to their respective comforts. This is important because we need to test our own ability to study because everyone has a disorder. certain part of student can catch up on that subject very well while the rest is slow pick up. So, there are many ways for them to explore, which is tips that is suitable for them to get focus and study in comfortable ways.

Learning pyramid - 90%

   Make sure that we make a discussion with friends because we can refresh back what we are     learning during a lecture. So, we can be more understand on what we have got from our lecturer. Moreover, we can also remember and memorize on that subject so well. So, we are actually have done a right way to improve our studies.

     

 However, there are still 10% left which is unseen mistakes or unexpected situation where student can't even know where does their fault when they have put their full of effort on their studies. Sometimes this situation can become true where the student didn't get the best result compared to their effort.

        In islam, we believe in god's hand that after we have put our full of effort during studies, we knew that our god which is Allah is the best planner. He know what is the best for His servant. As an islam, we just keep praying and stay be close to God because all of the result based on our effort and His decision. The success is come slow or fast is just decided by Him. We as a servant just put a full trust on Him.

Memory VS Brain.

     Memory is our ability to store, retain, and especially recall information and past experiences in the human brain. Memory also is the sum total of what we remember, and gives us the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as well as to build relationships. It is ability to remember past experiences, and the power or process of recalling to mind previously learned facts, experiences, impressions, skills and habits. It is the store of things learned and retained from our activity or experience, as evidenced by modification of structure or behavior, or by recall and recognition.

     Sometimes memory has an increase and decrease based on that person how they handle their memory or ability to save their memory. Memory also has short-term and long-term memory.

    Moreover, brain is an organ where its the boss of your body, it controls just about everything you do, even you're asleep. your memory lives in the cerebrum which is both short-term memory (what you ate for your dinner last night) and long-term memory (the name of your new friends that you just met 2 months ago at carnival).

    In the conclusion, brain is an organ that places many human's memory. You will forget your memory when you forget, had a terrible an accident until your memory loss, lack of your focus in certain situation, age factor is too old and others.

Memory strategies. 

• Acrostics
• Mnemonics
• Acronyms
• Imagery
• Organizational strategies

SQ3R
Survey: Survey to get rough idea about the topic.
Question: Ask several questions to yourself regarding to the topic.
Example:
Read: Read books from library with much detail to find the answer to your question.
Recite: Recite your readings by summarize everything into a simple note that you can easily                           understand.
Review: Read back the notes if you have free time so that you can always remain fresh about that topic.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR STRATEGY ?

• Space practice: Studying the new information over time is better for long-term memory (good).
• Massed practice: Doing the same thing over and over again. Short-term memory (not good).

Concentration VS Breaking concentration

 Concentration: 1) Set a positive minded.
                          2) Organize your mind.
                          3) Use strategies.
                          4) Deal with stress or distraction.

Breaking Concentration: 1) Distraction by personal or family problems.
                                         2) Lack of interest.
                                         3) Lack of positive vibes.
                                         4) Lack of attention.

This is an example for mind maps of mine. You can create by your own creatively.

                  

       Learn is start with yourself first !

Learn until when you're too old. 

     

CHAPTER 2 : GOAL SETTING & LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

What is goal ? 

     Goal setting is the object of a person's ambition or effort: an aim or desired result. It also can be called as the destination of a journey or a point. 

This particular topic will focus on :

1. Characteristic of goal
2. Academic & personal goals
3. Writing effective goal statements

     Goals are important in varsity life because they help motivate you to do work, attend classes and study for exam. We can actually improve your academic performance in university by learning to set goals that motivate you to do well in the future. Goals are the ends towards which we direct our effort.

    If we want to success, we must set our own goals. Without goals, we are lacked focus and direction. Goal setting is not just only we list our own goals then try to achieve it. It related with our life when sometimes we need to sacrifice something for achieve our goals. All about our goals is on our hand. Either we success or not is on our decision.

   To achieve our goals, we can't only set it just to say "i want". Goal setting is a process that starts with careful consideration of what you want to achieve, and ends with a lot of hard work and sacrifice to actually do and achieve it.

Our goals should be :

CHARACTERISTIC OF GOALS

• Goals should be self chosen.
• It must be moderately challenging.
• It should be realistic.
• It can measurable.
• It must be specific
• It must have a finite (having limits or bounds)
• Goals must be positive.

ACADEMIC GOALS VS PERSONAL GOAL

1. Academic goals.

• Get pointer 3.3 and above.
• Learn korean language.
• Get dean list at least 2 / 3 times in diploma level.

      2. Personal goals.

• Do a part time job for my own experience.
• Travel to Korea.
• Be close to God.
• Give my parents some money after i have got a job.
• Take my family to do haji or umrah.

     Importance for both and well balanced for academic and personal goals. We must disciplined our self and put a lot of effort for make our goals succeed. It is because these two goals is important
 in our life. We cannot focus on just one goal just because we give up.

     In islam, we are in context world and hereafter. We need them both because in our living for example, we need money to buy a books for our own knowledge. We must have a good communication with society for us to give a dakwah. All these mission to get an akhirat, we must have an acknowledge. If we don't get them both, we are nothing.

How to achieves your goals ?

Step 1: Write what you want to achieve.

Step 2: Write the obstacles that you must faces.

Step 3: Write source around you.

Step 4: Review and revise your goals.

Step 5: Polish your goal statement.

                                            This is an example of how i do my own goals.

You achieve or not your goals is put on your decision.

Be positve and make your goals come true.

CHAPTER 6 : TAKING LECTURE NOTES

TAKING LECTURE NOTES - PART 1

FOCUSES:

   1) Why take lecture notes ?

• Active learning.
• Accurate record of information.
• To interpret, condense and organize information.
• For repetition of material

   
    2) How to take lecture notes ?

•  Prepare before taking notes.

            *To read the text before class.
            *By reading the text will allow us to :
                      1. Build up the background about the topic.
                      2. Identify main idea of the lecture and organize note                                                                                 easier.
                      3. Be familiar with the key terms related to the topic.
            *Get ready to take notes as walk into the classroom :
                      1. Sitting in front of classroom will allow and hear better.
                      2. Probably to find other interested motivated friends sit in the first few rows of the                               class.
                      3. Review the notes took during the last class while waiting for class begin.

• Become active listener. 

            *Read before the lecture.
            *Review last set of notes.
            *Decide what to listen
            *Focus attention physically and mentally.
            *Listen for the main point & related details and take notes.
            *Listen with an open mind .
            *Control emotional responses.
            *Ask and answer question.
            *Monitor listening by checking with lecturer and classmate if unsure of some information.

• The Cornell note taking method.

EFFECTIVE NOTE TAKING SYSTEM - PART 2.


   3) What to include in notes ?

• Item :

          *Heading ; - always note the main points that are made during lecture.
          *Details ;   - any facts & explanations that explain the main points mentioned.
                            - definitions word for word if lecturer repeats them several times.
                            - examples related to general headings.
                            - anything that is repeated & spelled out.
                            - enumerations & lists of things that are discussed.
          *Discussion
            classes        ; - some lectures prefer the discussion format when teaching.
                                 - can easily take notes on a discussion by writing the main question                                                          passed.
                                 - the jot down the various points that are made during the discussion.
          *Mathematics &
            Science classes ; - taking notes in mathematics & sciences require.
          *Power point
            presentation ; - copy the headings & subheading into your notes.
                                   - listen to what the lecturer says about the slide & take notes.

   4) Reviewing notes.

         *Recite from the headings:
             - you can review to prompt memory.
             - check notes to wether you missed anything.
             - this method helps you learn the material in an integrated way.
             - cover the information under each heading.
         *Recite from the recalls:
             - this review method helps you learn the material in an isolated way.
             - you learn specific answers to specific questions.
             - use the recall questions to test your memory of the main points and                                                      supporting details.
         *Talk about the information
            with others                        :
             - another way to study is to talk about it.
             - get together with your friends to review your notes.
             - you can also teach the material to someone.
             - putting the information in your own words & explaining it to                                                               others to move it into long term memory.