ITEM 9 : CONCENTRATION CHART

 Item 9: Concentration Chart

Hello again,

As I stated on my latest post, I will be sharing with you guys about concentration again but this time we will be focusing on another sub topic. I was given a task by my lecturer to do an activity about concentration chart.

So, stay tuned if you are curious to know about it!

Monitor Our Concentration

In the latest post I talked about how to improve our concentration. Actually, there are too many strategies that we can follow. The other strategy is to monitor our concentration by using the concentration chart. I am going to show you how I did it.

 Instruction - Use the chart in Figure 6.4 to record up to ten of the concentration problems that you 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	Strategies
2/11/2020	Quiz MIC102 on Kahoot	-Slow to answer	Internet connection	- find better location with good connection - deal with  my personal problem to solve internet problem
3/11/2020	Assignment of UED102	-Cannot focus	-Lack interest on for the topic	- use motivational and organisational strategies -create interest in the task
4/11/2020	Tutorial CHM138	-feeling tired	- Had studied for 1 hour straight	- Use concentration cycle - Have a study break time
5/11/2020	Other assignment and review chapter 2 of MIC102	-less concentration to answer review question	-multitasking	-Use goal settings strategies to manage task
6/11/2020	Video Assignment for CTU101	-Could not send the video as planned in to do list	-lost concentration to memorize the Surah	- deal with my personal problem - reduce using phone when studying or doing task

Above table shows my concentration chart for this week during weekdays. As I used the strategies just like I stated above, it worked very well as long as I follow the strategies.

Although, there are still some improvement needed. I still need to improve my strategies to reduce using phone when studying. That is the one that need I should be avoiding the most.

For the other strategies, it worked well to solve my concentration problem and I could manage to finish the tasks as planned in my “To-Do List”. Yeay!

Monitoring our concentration can do a lot of improvement to us. By doing it, we can see the some improvement on our concentration ability when it comes to study, learning and all that kind of stuff.

Put notes or star mark whenever we start to lost focus during the lecture can work too. Go back to our lecturer and ask them to explain again is the best way to keep us on track.

Every time we notice that our concentration starts losing, figure it out why we can loss focus. Once the reason is found out, try to avoid it next time. Always find a way to overcome our concentration problem.

Figure 1 example of concentration chart

I think that is all from me today. Hope you will find interest to improve your concentration by using the concentration chart just like me. See you in the next post and 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.