Faculty of Administrative science and Policy Studies

E-Portfolio UED102
Name Adam Lian Dunstan
Age 18 Years Old
Uitm Campus Campus Samarahan 2
Course Public
Administration(AM110)

Student ID 2022665326
Lecturer Name MDM Sarehan Sadikin
About me and what is UED102
Hello my name is Adam lian Dunstan and im from Kuching,Sarawak.UED 102 or commonly
known as study skills is an important learning skill that students must learn when enrolling
into university.The skills that come with the subject are effective time management, setting
goals, learning styles, learning strategies and processing information from lectures and
texts.

Content of UED102
Topic 1 : Getting Ready to Learn
 Making the Transition (from school to university)
 Characteristics of Successful Student
 Learning Styles Inventory
 Goal Statements — The Five Step Approach

Topic 2: Goal Setting

 Goal Statements — The Five Step Approach

 Fixed-Commitment Calendar
 Job Task Analysis
 Prioritized To-Do List

Topic 3: Time Management

 Memory Strategies
 Organizational Strategies
 Concentration Strategies
 Concentration Chart
 Reading text

Topic 4: Memory Learning and Improving Concentration

 Understanding Memory processes

 Why You need memory stratergies
 General Memory Strategies
 Specific Memory Strategies
Topic 5: Taking Lecture Notes

 How to take lecture notes

 Use an Effective Note Taking System
 Editing Your Notes
 Reviewing Your Notes

Topic 6 Academic Integrity and performance

 Avoiding Plagiarism
 Calculating grade point average
Topic 1 : GETTING READY TO LEARN

 Transitioning from school to University

Transitioning from being in a school to university is not an easy task

because students need to make new friends, find out new things and make
necessary lifestyle adjustment for them to feel at home in the new
surroundings. To adapt to a new life is hard but is worth experience.
 Characteristics of succesful students

Students need to have good characteristics to become a successful

student. If the students keep slacking off and not focused on their
assignments chances of them getting good grades will be low.

5 steps to becoming a successful university student

1) Make your studies your number 1 priority. Students would

usually become a success in their studies because they make
their studies a number one priority. Although making time for
friends, family, extracurricular activities, and even some alone
downtime is crucial, but you should never disregard the time
you need to study. You should probably forego the large party
two days prior to the exam if you have one coming up and
don't feel ready.
2) Be punctual. Learn to judge time and reach where you need to
be in a timely manner. In fact, you should aim to arrive a little
early wherever you go so you have enough time to settle in,
focus, and be prepared to learn when you arrive. Being on time
is crucial if you want to be a great student, whether you have
an exam to take or a study session with a friend.
3) Work Honestly. This means that you should always do your
own work and refrain from copying or cheating. Cheating won't
help you achieve your goals, and a shortcut today may land
you in serious problems tomorrow.
4) Stay Focused. Successful students maintain their attention on
the current task. You must make a commitment to studying
one chapter of your history book for an hour, rather than
allowing your thoughts to stray. Take a quick 10-minute break
 if you need it don't let it turn into an hour-long break after only
10 minutes of studying.
5) Get to know your lecturer. Stop by the lecturer's office during
business hours or before or after the class for a brief
conversation. Ask a question regarding the course material or
inquire about your academic progress. Getting to know your
professors may make it easier for you to ask for assistance
when you need it.
 Learning styles inventory

 Learning styles

My learning style

My learning style is a visual

Characteristics of a visual learner:

Visual learners do well when they get to refer to notes. If you find that you
learn better by reading and looking at pictures, diagrams and graphs etc. the
chances are you're a visual learner.
I have answered learning style inventory questions to find out my learning
style. I am more into the type of visual learning style and before this I was
really easy to understand in auditory . Then, the types of kinesthetic and
auditory learning styles are sometimes simple and easy for me to understand.
Now I know my type of learning style and can stay focused on it.
Goal Statements — The Five Step Approach

Goal Setting
I. Goal setting is the process for your ideal future and motivates
yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality.
II. The goal setting process will help you go through life’s processes
III. Properly set goals can
motivate and compile you as
well as get used to and achieved
and you will feel your self-
confidence grow faster and
better.
 The Five Step Approach

Step 1 : Tentative Goal Statement

 I want to maintain a GPA of 3.5-4.0
 I want to develop a good studying habit
Step 2 : List of Obstacles
 I have bad time management
 I procastinate a lot
Step 3 : List of Resources
 Rewards myself whenever I accomplish something
 Find some good reference to help me in studying
Forming a study group
Step 4 : Revised goal statement
 I work hard and study smart
 I will do a simple revision before going to class
 I will make my parents by getting excellent results
Step 5 : Polish goal statement
 I will never give up on my studies
 I will manage my time wisely
 I will sharpen my mentality
Topic 2: Time management and Getting to know the campus

Time Management

Time management is the processes of organizing and planning how to

divide time in between specific activities. Good time management enables
someone to work smarter not harder so that you work done in less time
span even when time is tight and pressure are high. Failing causes more
problems in succeeding.
 Monday Tuesday Wednesda Thursda Friday Saturda Sunda
y y y y
6.am sleep
7.am Sleep Shower
and eat
breakfast
8.am Sleep MAT11 PAD102 ELC121 CSC134 Sleep Sleep
2
9.am

10.am
11.am Wake up ELC121 PAD101 IDA102 Lunch Wake Wake
and up up
12.am breakfas
t

1.pm Get Lunch Lunch Lunch Relax Lunch Lunch

ready for
class
2.pm

3.pm PAD102 Rest MAT112 Study

PAD10 and do
4.pm 1 revision
5.pm REST CSC134 HBU111

6.pm Exercise

7.pm

Take a
shower

8.pm Study and

do some
9.pm revisions

10.p
m
11.p Play games
m

12.am

1.am

Sleep

2.am

Sleep

3.am Sleep

4.am Sleep

5.am Sleep
 Job Task Analysis

This Job Task Analysis is very useful for us to create our daily schedule based
on our current needs. For each activities, we calculate how much time should
we spent within 24 hours so we does not waste our time with things that does
not give benefits to us.
IMPORTANCE SCALE FREQUENCY SCALE
0 – NOT PERFORMED 0 – NOT PERFORMED
1 – NOT IMPORTANT 1 – EVERY FEW MONTHS TO EARLY
2 – SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT 2 – EVERY FEW WEEKS TO MONTLY
3 – IMPORTANT 3 – EVERY FEW DAYS TO WEEKLY
4 – VERY IMPORTANT 4 – EVERY FEW HOURS TO DAILY
5 – EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 5 – HOURLY TO MANY TIME EACH HOUR

TASK DESCRIPTION IMPORTANC FREQUENCY

E
SLEEPING 5 4

MAKING MY BED 4 4

TAKING BATH 4 4

DO LAUNDRY 3 4

WASH THE DISHES 3 4

EATING 5 4

GO OUT WITH FRIENDS 3 2

EXERCISE 3 3

ATTENDING MY ONLINE CLASSES 5 4

PLAY GAMES 1 43

WATCH MOVIE 2 3

DO ASSIGNMENT 5 5

LEARN AND REVISIONS 5 4

Getting to know the campus
As you can see that UITM Samarahan 2 has nice place to chill and
relax.Also good place to study as it has a great library. I havent faced any
problems in my whole time here. Im greatful for my placement here.
Topic 3: Memory,Learning and Improving Concentration

Memory Strategies

What is Memory?

 Is a process of acquiring,storing,retaining and later retrieving

information
 the ability to both preserve and recover information.
 Memory is the property of organism which ensures impression of
connections between the environmental events and accumulation of
living experience.

What is a brain?
  A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in
all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in
the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision

Understanding Memory Processing

Memory is the process of taking in information from the world around us,
processing it, storing it and later recalling that information, sometimes many
years later.

Sensory Memory

 Records information from the senses for up to three seconds

 Examples are iconic (visual) memory and echoic (auditory) memory

Short Term Memory(STM)

 Holds about seven items for up to twenty seconds before the material
is forgotten or transferred to long-term memory

Long-Term Memory(LTM)

 Relative permanent, can hold vast amounts of information

 Causes of poor memory

What is poor memory?

Poor memory is a problem that affects most people, to a degree.

Whether it's occasional forgetfulness or loss of short-term memory that
interferes with daily life, there are many causes of poor memory.
 Strategies to improve memory

1. Understand the material

2. Have the right study environment
3. Space out your work
4. Repetition
5. Organize your learning material
6. Use Mnemonic methods
7. Think in pictures and colors
8. Association
9. Acronyms
10.Talk about what you have learn
11.Storytelling
12.Vary your study routine
13.Get enough sleep
14.Play games
15.Chunking
16.Funny sentences
17.Rote rehearsal
18.Elaboration
TASK : ACTIVITY 4.1
Orgazinational Strategies
Organize things into 3 groups or category to remember. You also can
remember more than 4 items in each category quite easily because the
headings help trigger your memory. For example;
TASK : ACTIVITY 4.7

1st Attempt

 Newspaper
 Pencil
 Boat
 Magazine
 Train
 Crayon
 Book
 Pen
 Bus
2nd Attempt

 Newspaper
 Book
 Magazine
 Comic Book
 Crayon
  Boat
 Bus
 Train
 Pen
 Pencil
 Chalk
 Automobile

During the activities , I can only remember 11 from all of the words. It is
Newspaper,Book,Magazine,comic book,crayon,boat,bus,train,pen,pemcil,chalk
and automobile. This is because I randomly try to remember the words
shown.When I try this activity again with the grouping technique I can
remember a few of them easily.
Concentration Strategies

 Concentration is paying attention and focusing on things we are

doing

Causes of poor concentration

Strategies to improve concentration

I find it hard to focus for a long period of time because I tend to get bored
especially if it doesn’t catch my interests to gain more knowledge about
it.Then in the previous class I completed the activity given by my lecturer.

As you can see,I got 4 over 10 marks for this activity and this indirectly
show that Im not good enough. So to improve concentration, I will have to
follow a strict schedule and need to change my mindset.
Concentration Charts

Subject Concentration Strategy

ELC121 Understand the subject Need to do more
reading
Mat112 Don’t understand some Need help from lecturer
chapters or friends and do more
exercises
PAD102 Can understand but a Need to do more
bit complicated reading and make notes
PAD101 Understand the subject Do more reading
IDA102 Understand the subject Read more
CSC134 Don’t understand much Do more reading

From the charts you can see that I have a lack of Understanding got
CSC134 and MAT112.Therefore I need to work harder on those
subjects to do good on my finals.
READING TEXT
POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN GLOBAL PERSEPCTIVE
- MONARCY
- DEMOCRACY
- AUTHORITARIANISM
- TOTALITARIANISM
MONARCY
~ Monarchy is a political system in which power resides in one person or family
and is
passed from generation to generation through lines of inheritance.
DEMOCRACY
~ Democracy is a political system in which the people hold the ruling power
either directly
or through elected representatives.
AUTHORITARIANISM
~ Authoritarianism is a political system controlled by rulers who deny popular
participation
in government.
TOTALITARIANISM
~ Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state seeks to regulate all
aspects of
people’s public and private lives.

Quesions
1. Which that are using Authoritarianism as their political system?
- Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are examples of Authoritarian absolute monarchies.
2. What is Nation-states ?
- Nation-states is a unit of political organization that has recognizable national
boundaries and whose citizens possess specific legal rights and obligations.
3. Give one example of a Totalitarian regime.
- National Socialist ( Nazi)
4. In which countries that people have a voice in the government through
representative democracy ?
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
- United Kingdom
 TOPIC 5 : TAKING LECTURE NOTES

What is notes taking?

Taking notes is writing down ideas and read it with our own word.

Why we should take notes?

How to take lecture notes:

 Record main ideas

 List number of points
 Use your own words to understand better
 Use number, bullet or points so its easier to read back
NOTE TAKING USING CORNELL METHOD

The Cornell method of taking, organising, and summarising notes is very

common. Generally speaking, using this approach improves comprehension in
general.Professor Walter Paul of Cornell University created this system of
taking notes in the 1950s.
Example of the method:
Plagiarism

 the act of appropriating someone else's ideas or work and presenting

them as one's own.

Examples of plagiarism

How to avoid plagiarism

 Write from scratch

 Know the types of plagiarism
 Keeps tabs on sources
 Provide complete citations
 Use Quoatation marks
GPA WORKSHEET

What is GPA?

The term "grade point average," or GPA, is an acronym for "grade point
average," which is normally computed by adding up all of your numbered
grades and dividing them by the total amount of credits you have taken.

How to calculate GPA

What is CGPA
CGPA is defined as Cumulative Grade Points Average. CGPA is the
measurement of average grade points obtained by a student in all the semesters
excluding additional 6th subject as per scheme of studies.

GPA= Grade Point Average

CGPA=Cumulative Grade Point Average

NO. COURSE CREDIT TARGET

HOURS
1. INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC 3.0 2.7
ADMINISTRATION(PAD102)
2. INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT 3.0 3.0
3. INTEGRATED LANGUAGE 3.0 3.0
SKILL(ELC121)
4. BUSINESS MATHS(MAT112) 3.0 2.6
5. MAN AND 2.0 1.5
RELIGION(IDA102)
6. COMPUTER AND 3.0 2.5
INFORMATION
PROCESSING(CSC134)

MY TARGET
CGPA= ( 2.7X3.0 ) + ( 3.0X3.0 ) +( 3.0 X 3.0) +( 2.6 X 3.0 )+(1.5X 2.0)+(2.5 X3.0
)
( 3+3+3+3+2+3)

CGPA =

CGPA =
Summary

To summarize this assignment, we as students have to study in order to secure

a successful future. I am certain that everyone has struggles to do better in
terms education but there are many ways to achieve success in what are we
studying Some of the methods been mentioned in this assignment and can be
applied when studying. I believe we should all be good students and do good in
our society.

Here is a motivational quote

THANK YOU