My "Study" Planner

Hi hello assalamualaikum, it's been quite some time since I last uploaded an entry here so this time I decided to write a bit regarding my planner, academic planner to be precise cs it's not really a study planner pun hihi. Few weeks back when I uploaded a picture on my whatsapp status, my junior replied to it (yes that's you Amirah) complimenting my writing haha adoi malu noks and asked about tips berkenaan study planner. 

Yess tengok tu dia puji kita, maluuuu hahaha gedik je

Honestly my planner, previously memang buat ala2 bullet journal (aka bujo) tapi sometimes rasa malas gila nak update bujo everyday tau so lama2 it became specifically for class' schedule and deadlines only, which I find quite useful to create awareness abt yr schedule and academic. 

Since dah janji, and I rasa terlebih rajin nak write, so here we go, some pictures of my planner and how I arrange them so they would somewhat provide benefits for me. Gitewww. And of course I hope for those yang rasa nak buat planner, will find this helpful in some ways for you to start planning your own journal :)

So before start pape, kena lah ada buku ye. Haha. I stitched up this book myself sebab honestly I couldn't find any suitable ready-made journal that is up to my liking thus I made this myself (learnt from YouTube). Since it's made from thick paper (sketching pad), kita boleh tampal2 on the page so I always start my new academic year with this, as you can see in the picture above, the academic calendar. Might seem like unimportant but I love to know when is the mid-semester break, study break and also exam period. Crucial for you to prep up your mind actually.

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Then I akan search for online blank calendars and print them out, susun ikut month so you'll have your monthly and roughly your weekly spread. Suka buat macam ni sebab you akan dapat your weekly overall view. And honestly memudahkan.

Firstly sebab jadual class (at least for my course) tak sama for each week. So I definitely akan copy each class and write them on each day, as you can see in above picture. I tulis eeeeverything; class, test, presentation, cuti, ospe, and pape je lah yang relevan. This was from my third semester. Kiranya bila dah dapat jadual tu, basically salin je yg mana dah tertulis dalam jadual. I pasted all the printed calendar in the middle, sebab left column I nak label week berapa berapa. 

And paling penting kat sini is the right column, sebab I akan isi all the deadlines utk assignment submission, test and presentation day. Since kita dah tulis, kita akan jadi alert about these dates thus kita akan sedar, "oh assignment ni nak kena submit lagi 2 weeks la" "oh, presentation tu same day with test la, kena prepare slide awal2 ni sebab nanti nak kena study for the test lagi" macam tu lah lebih kurang. 

Nampak simple kan, tapi, rather than you beratkan your brain nak ingat all the deadlines, ada baiknya you jot down all of them. So kalau you boleh zoom in dekat right column tu, you boleh nampak, benda yg dah settle or dah submit, I akan tick. Benda yg tak jadi, or postponed, I'll just cross them out. Simple.

Ni another example untuk my fifth semester, same layout, ada left column for week labelling, middle untuk calendar, and right column for deadlines & important dates. Macam biasa, tulis classes from what time to what time, subjek apa and even cuti pun I tulis dekat calendar tu. Penting ok. Haha. Peteh ganu peteh tu cuti sempena menang bola ke apa tah lupa dah hahaha

Here comes the daily spread. Tapi daily spread ni bertahan sampai sem berapa je entah sebab tak mampu nak tulis semua so lately kalau ada benda/task yg important and takut lupa, I'll just set a reminder in my Google calendar sebab that's what smartphones are for. Meh. Hahaha. So previously, awal2 dulu, my daily spread looked like this, before I changed them into the below picture. Basically, untuk daily spread, you tulis task apa you nak achieve on that particular day, tapi tulis a day before. Kalau the next day ada submission, then tulis "submit assignment TITAS"or ada meeting dengan lecturer, tulis "jumpa Dr A", or ada test in few days more so tulis "study chapter 1 dan 2, test dah dekat oi" or even macam simple task like "beli bawang dan shampoo" or even "kemas bilik", seriously anything yang kita nak buat, tulis. 

So at the end of the day, before you tidur or after dah settle task tu, cross out je yang mana dah settle. Yang mana belum settle, just copy balik task tersebut utk kita buat the next day (sebab we prepare task utk next day kan the night before.) Ha camtula.

So ni, I tambah timeline above each day, sebab tu nampak ada border and kemas sedikit, so I macam colour la, 01-06/07 tu waktu tidur, then kalau yg lain, class I colour kuning so nampak la oh ni ada class masa ni. Then, macam Thursday 21 tu, in pink, was OSPE time, colour a day before so nanti tau la oh esok ada OSPE habis pukul sekian lepastu baru boleh enjoy ok. Ha gitu. Indicator tu sesaja la nak kasi nampak sistematik gitew. Sleep and water tracker tu just for fun je la sebenarnya. Back then takde mi band apa jadah tu so sekarang teknologi yang buat semua haha. 

But it's fun actually if you consistent and commit to your bujo everyday. Sebab nanti in the end boleh nampak your lifestyle pattern, you productive ke tak week tu, so nanti boleh muhasabah diri and be better for the next week or month. And bila kita jot down task apa yang kita nak buat the next day, most probably we'll do it sebab kita eager nak cross out apa yang kita tulis. The satisfaction of being able to get the task done and crossing them out of your to-do-list gives you further motivation to do better the following day :)

Another example :)

So I think tu je for this entry, basically that's what I do since semester 3 until now semester 7 (dah semester 8 sebenarnya kalau ikut sistem) tapi takpelah. Basically sentiasa buat yg monthly tu sebab it helps me to see the semester in overview, macam boleh nampak overall, "oh sabtu first bulan oktober ada this this this" so senang la kita nak plan ahead, nak plan bila nak buat group assignment dan sebagainya. I hope you'll find this entry helpful and will be able to make a planner that's beneficial for yourself ok. So good luck guys and take care. Assalamualaikum :D

UniSZA ISM Pengimejan Perubatan | Semester 1

Assalamualaikum! Feel like doing another post related to UniSZA Medical Imaging Course.

This one will specifically focus on the subjects of the very first semester. So shall we?

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University's Subjects

Kokurikulum

TITAS (Tamadun Islam & Tamadun Asia)

English for Communication I

Ilmu Wahyu dan Sains/Moral dan Etika

Oh okay uni subject ni wajib score ok because kalau tak score uni subject, sayanglah sebab honestly benda boleh belajar & score, ok? Generally je lah pasal uni subject ni like koku, make sure attendance cantik, and join aktiviti sebab kokurikulum nanti kena buat final project, like previously kitorang in Iqra' 3 kitorang gabung dengan Iqra' 1, 2 & 4 bukak booth masa pesta konvokesyen UniSZA, ada 4 hari so satu hari 1 class jaga booth tu so aktiviti adalah bergantung kepada AJK setiap kumpulan lah. Be sure to take part, jangan sign attendance and angkat kaki, have resposibilities, tak elok tau buat perangai irresponsible nak markah je kerja taknak buat. Kitorang juga ada test in Iqra' tu so baca lah sikit2 ilmu tajwid yang diajar tu ye. During my time notes tu were made available so yes boleh study. Untuk kokurikulum lain tak sure macam mana pemarkahannya tapi insyaAllah fasi korang akan bagi briefing just like our fasi did masa first session co-curricular class tu. Every subject akan ada cara pemarkahannya yang tersendiri. Koku tak sama macam TITAS, TITAS tak sama macam English. TITAS, during my time it was 60% carrymarks (continuous assessment & assignments) and 40% final exam (objective Qs only as of last year), same goes with Ilmu Wahyu dan Sains. Sorry untuk subjek Moral dan Etika I'm not sure. And untuk English pulak, be sure to score every tiny assessment sebab English takde paper final. During my time, English ni fully continuous assessment so score progress test, pay attention dalam class ok, be aware dengan tarikh2 test subjek english (:

Core/Course's Subjects

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

Patient Care in Radiography I

Imaging Technique I

Fundamental of Physics

We go one by one okay untuk core subjects.

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

Subjek anatomy & physiology ni best, I mean, one of my fav. Basically belajar pasal badan, cell and organelles (matriculation/foundation pun dah belajar), the systems, the organs, the muscles, the bones, all the weird names, anatomical planes, and physiology ni pulak, kita belajar macam mana each system tu function. Like positive and negative feedback mechanism e.g. when your blood glucose level rises, how will your body respond, and what happens, macam tu. As for me, anatomy ni memang kena hafal while physio, kena faham. Of course it depends on the individual, tapi macam tu lah. Untuk FSK, or maybe Medical Imaging je, biasanya pemarkahan is 40% continuous assessment and 60% is final exam. So CA penting, final p=un penting. Penting untuk score conass (test), tapi jangan pulak amik mudah dengan quiz sebab mana tau lecturer nak juga amik markah quiz tu? During my time, tutorials pun contribute untuk the 40% continuous assessment so yes, everything is important. Untuk taknak sakit kepala hujung semester, anatphysio ni silalah revise every week kalau taknak revise everyday pun. You know your own brain capability kan, so kalau yang genius takpelah nak study last minute pun tapi if all the anatomical and physiological terms sound so alien to your ears, better study awal (: Use the tutorials given untuk revise & enhance understanding and kalau tak faham, be sure to ask your friends or better, meet your lecturer and ask him/her.

Source | I legitly found the image above while writing this post and it comes from a set of questions yang I think kinda represents contoh soalan anatomy and physiology bab skeletal system o.O (checkout the link that I attached) 

PS: Anatomy and Physio during my time material dia agak banyak sebab Dr Anuar (my lecturer) ajar sangat detailed (he specialises in anatomy, that's why) so yes if you guys dapat him, study from early semester tau. He's a good lecturer, dia ajar memang faham provided you tak tidur in class lah eh haha (perli diri sendiri)

Patient Care in Radiography I

Patient care ni subjek yang agak ringan tetapi tidak boleh dipandang mudah. Walaupun ringan, akan banyak guna ilmu subjek ni di hospital kelak. Sama juga rasanya final marks are contributed by 40% continuous assessment and 60% from final exam. TAPI weightage ni mungkin bertukar tau depending on your lecturer (: What I wrote is based on during my time (Academic Year 2016/17). Sem 1 subjek ni okay ada belajar briefly pasal medicolegal, pasal wound dressing. Last year, subjek ni selalunya akan diajar oleh lecturers from medical imaging/FSK and also from nursing/FP and kalau yang under nursing, we belajar teori je takde praktikal sangat.

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Fundamental Physics

Kalau tak silap dan salah ingatan, Physics during first semester kita belajar benda yang makes up an x-ray machine, maybe bukan semua but mostly. So it was about rectifiers, capacitors, pasal energy, unit of radiation, pasal alternating & direct current, magnetism etc. Tak banyak kira2 sangat from what I can recall as of now but to understand the concept is very crucial. Masa sem 1, antara subjek paling aku rajin study is Physics kot, sebab suka and honestly lama dah tinggal Physics so rasa otak bengap semacam. Because of this, I also went to the library and pinjam buku Physics pasal electric/electronic yang bukan dekat rak radiography pun haha the book helped me honestly tapi sayang I can't recall what's the title, kena pergi usha kat library nanti bukak sem.

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Imaging Technique I

Okay honestly subjek ni direct je, tapi material dia BANYAK. Imaging Technique ni, as the name suggests, kita akan belajar how to position the patient tau, and banyak juga guna imagination, sebab kita kena bayangkan kalau, contoh, letak patient baring mengiring tapi lean towards ke hadapan, nanti dapat gambar tulang macam mana dan sebagainya dan projections yang akan dipelajari pun bukanlah sedikit. Like patella je ada a few. Patella tu tulang lutut, layman's term: kneecap, the biggest sesamoid bone in the body, yang terbonjol dekat kepala lutut tu ha, ha bende kecik je tapi nak x-ray dia tu, bukan ada 1 cara je, ha gitulah bayangan dia. Tapi best subjek ni once you dapat grab the concept, tapi cuak sikit la time OSPE (exam praktikal), haha. But practice makes perfect so during lab/praktikal, seize the chance untuk belajar and perform projection tu okay? Partner dengan member and learn from each other. Sumpah I actually bodoh subjek ni my friends helped me a lot especially Puteri. Study dengan member pun sangat membantu untuk subjek ni. Sebab most of the time kita akan ingat apa kawan kita duk membebel (again, from my experience).

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Untuk exam pulak, kena ingat la projection A apa kelebihan dia, tulang/structure apa paling senang nampak @ is more focused at, projection B kita boleh nampak apa. Contoh la eh, kena tau nak tengok acetabulum of femur, projection mana paling sesuai? Ha gitu. I rasa, kalau rajin, untuk this subject, you guys buat table, so that boleh differentiate each components untuk each projection and see everything clearly. I ada niat nak buat table, tapi niat tinggal niat je lah. Overall, I banyak study guna mindmaps including this subject tapi do what's best for you according your study style and what works best for you guys, okay? (:

Additional: Untuk buku pula, usually lecturers akan bagi book's suggestion (all subjects pun) so what I did was, search for the books at the library and borrow them. Yeah I'm a bit nerdy (I love reading), that's why haha.

Tu je kot. Other advices might be pay attention to the pecahan markah untuk all the test and final exams, jaga hati lecturer and buat assignment biarlah bersungguh haha okay till then, wassalam!