ITEM. 3 : FIXED - COMMITMENT CALENDAR

 

Fixed Commitment Calendar

Hello readers,

I am going to share with you how I manage my time using a fixed commitment calendar. Check it out!

Importance of Time Management

Time management is the way we regulate or schedule our time. We can make more efficient use of our study time and complete all the works in less time by using good time management skills. 

Besides, time management is also a way to discipline ourselves and be responsible students.

Managing Time On Our Own

Unlike in high school life, college life is a little bit tougher as we need to structure our own schedule. An example to over come this problem is by recording a time log.

Keep a Time Log

Keeping a time log helps us to see how much we use time to complete one task, and how little time we spend on other activities.

Time log is a record of what we do each hour of the day for a week.

Here is the tip to record time log. Don’t wait until it is the end of the day to record all of the activities we have done to avoid inaccuracy.

 

Example of time log

My Fixed Commitment Calendar

	Monday	Tuesday	wednesday	thursday	friday	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
0600	Wake up	Wake up	Wake up	Wake up	Wake up	Wake up	Wake up
0700	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
0800	Chores-laundry	Class - CHM	Chores	Chores	Chores	Chores - Laundry	Chores
0900	Read notes before class	Class - CHM	Read notes before class	Read notes before class	Read notes before class	Make notes	Make notes
1000	Class - ELC	Class - MIC	Class - CSC	Class - MIC	Class - MAT	Revision	Revision
1100	Class - ELC	Class - MIC	Class - CSC	Class - MIC	Class - MAT	Assignment / tutorial / task	Assignment / tutorial / task
1200	Class - ELC	Cook -  Lunch	Class - MAT	Class - ELC	Nap	Nap	Nap
1300	Cook – Lunch – Rest	Rest	Read notes Before class	Cook – Lunch	Cook - Lunch	Cook - Lunch	Cook - Lunch
1400	Class - CHM	Class - CSC	Class - MAT	Class - CHM	Read notes before class	Leisure – watch TV / YouTube	Leisure
1500	Class - CTU	Class - CSC	Class - MAT	Class - CHM	Class - UED	Assignment	Assignment
1600	Class -  CTU	Freshen up – Hi tea	Freshen up – Hi tea	Freshen up – Hi tea	Class - UED	Freshen up – Hi tea	Freshen up – Hi tea
1700	Kesatria	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities
1800	Kesatria	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities	Outdoor activities
1900	Kesatria	Shower	Shower	Shower	Shower	Shower	Shower
2000	Prayer	Prayer	Prayer	Prayer	Prayer	Prayer	Prayer
2100	Revision	Revision	Assignment	Homework	Rest	Rest	Revision
2200	Self-study - Assignments	Revision	Revision	Revision	Make Notes for each subjects	Revision	Make Notes for each subjects
2300	Prepare for tomorrow class	Prepare for tomorrow class	Prepare for tomorrow class	Prepare for tomorrow class	Leisure	Leisure	Prepare for tomorrow class
0000	Bedtime	Bedtime	Bedtime	Bedtime	Bedtime	Bedtime	Bedtime

Hours needed for study / a WEEK:   56 hours  

Hours available for study / a WEEK:    54 hours

As a full time student we should get about:-

·        56 hours a week sleeping (one-third of our time)

·        56 hours for academics (classes, study time, tutoring, review sessions and meetings with professors or advisor)

·        56 hours for the rest of our life.

Above calendar is based on my daily life. It might be different with you guys as we have different classes schedule etc. But to make sure that we have enough time for personal activities and time for study is a must! Make sure we still have some times to study or do some revisions to recall all the things that we have learnt that day.

Instead of using this manual method, we can also use the applictions that we have on the phone such as the classup, google calendar and so on to remind us our schedule.

That is all for today and I hope you can try to do this fixed commitment calendar for yourself too. Goodbye!

p/s: All of the information above are based on my study skill textbook provided by my lecturer for study skill (UED102) course. All of the images or pictures are just my creativity. I do not own any of them.