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Dear 2025

How to Study Efficiently Before Final Exam

I can still manage to learn and understand the subjects in degree time compare than my diploma time. In diploma time, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I STUDY. Even in the final examination, I failed at 5 times and I have to repeat the subjects again about 1 year and a half. Why? I considered myself as a hardworking person and I always have a time to study but I didn't have a partner to study with me. My classmate did help me but I still can never understand what they taught me. So I took initiative to study myself. At first, I didn't know how to start, then I found a video on YT but I can't remember the title was. But here's a definitely things I follow to make myself understand the subject.

1. Focus on a subject that you want to study and list all the topic in the subject. Example Accounting. So in Accounting, there are main topics such share based payments(MFRS 2), employee benefits (MFRS 119), financial instrument (MFRS 9), presentation financial instrument (MFRS 132) and disclosure financial instrument (MFRS 7). So there were like 5 main topics to cover.

2. Make notes about the topic. Example, we start off with first topic which is MFRS 2. Therefore make notes about MFRS 2. You don't have to necessarily understand all of it at once. Just copy the note from your textbook and write in on your notebook, your own writings. Highlight the words if you feel that it is important. If you can't understand some word, google the meaning and put a side note.

3. Watch a lecture video of YT video explaining the topic. Then, watch your lecturer videos or google video that makes you understand about the topic. Based on what you just write in your note, you can finally understand what you just write and the explanation of it. It helps you focus more to the topic.

4. Refer the past final examination paper from last years or years before. Go to the library or find the question paper about the subject and study what questions usually they ask in the paper. For example,

2017-Difference employee benefit in two companies

2018-Advatange practicing employee benefit in company

2019-Company without employee benefit

2020-Types of employee benefit

2021-Limitation of employee benefit

Do note: that sometime the question might reappear again in next paper or sometimes not. But your only options is to include all of it in case it will reappear in next paper.

5. Do exercise based only on the past examination papers. So based on the papers you have analyzed, answer all the question and repeat if you feel needed. After you had done your exercises, read all the note you have written in the beginning before sitting the final examination.

If you're studying everyday, you will have time before the final exam and refresh your memory and maybe you can do the final exam without stress. However, if you doesn't have time to study and only have a little time before exam, do only the past year exam paper because you don't have time to read. In conclusion, please study before the final examination approximately a week before. Or a month before the date.

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Update Degree Life

It is now 2021 which is my fifth year in my studies. I started my study in 2017 and still continuing my bachelor degree until now. I'm expecting to finish my study around 2022 or 2023. Since the lockdown, my classes were only held in online meeting or google meet. My final examination was also online. It is quite tough for someone like me to balance work and study life.

As for now, I'm still working fulltime and study part-time. Therefore, I will be working during days and study during night. Since last semester (Jan-July 2021) my sleep time has decrease to 4 hours a day. I will sometimes take a nap during days and skip my lunch. After a while and finished the final examination for the semester, I finally can take a long break to take a rest. But still my sleep time is abnormal. I slept around 4am and woke up at 8 or 9 or 11 am.

So in August, I try to normalize my sleep time at 10pm and wake up at 6am to do my daily routine. This habit will only last until the beginning of the next semester because I will get busy again. I'll just let the time decide on that. For now I will try to fix and maintain my sleep time at 10pm.

Talking about my study life, it has been 5 years huh? What did I even study in those 5 years 😂 lol. I am a part-time student so there are not many people I knew in 5 years time. I always change classes for every subject and I met new person each semester. Things were never easy because I didn't know what kind of person they are. I took 4 subjects each semester to get the credit hours. There were not many left, there was 7 subjects until my last semester. So I considered that this will my third before last semester. Next semester will be my second last semester and the next semester will be my last semester.

Now it is currently the semester break for my university. The final examination result will be announced at the end of August. I have expected result in my mind and I hope that I will pass all the subject. In this pandemic, everyone has been stress out including me for not able to go out and refresh. I hope that this pandemic will quickly over and I can meet my friends. That's an update about my degree life. Thank you. 😀

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WORKING WHILE STUDYING GIVES ME DEPRESSION

Hello!

It has been a bumpy road for me since 2017 I started my part time study in bachelor degree of accounting study. Fulltime working as account assistant while part time studying are the only option I have had. Why? Because I made a mistake during my diploma time. I was supposed to take an English test to pursue my degree in the same university but I didn't have time to take it. Therefore, I took the exam later after I finished my diploma and graduated and so.

Next step I apply for degree in other government-university but it seems like it's a little too late for me. At that time, I don't have money to get into private university because the fee is so expensive. So I got myself a job or two to support my daily life. Of course I have a parent and I still lived with them but I don't want to burden them. I try to apply again, this time for sure I apply the same university when I was in diploma, and they said the chance I can get in is to apply the part time study mode. I agreed.

At first, I thought that ahh this will be okay, it will be fine since I can have time for my job at the same time I study there. I pursue it not knowing that it gives me hard time in my life. I got stressed because I had no day to relax. This was because, on Monday to Friday I have to work 8 hours a day. Then on Saturday and Sunday, I have classes. After 2 years doing so, my mental just can't keep up with me anymore. I began to felt like I WANT TO END THIS.

Seriously, I can't think straight. I always spent my time alone. I don't want to be disturbed. What I do during my worktime I don't even know. I can't even achieve my goal to get better CGPA. It's been a horrid time for me. I cried every night thinking that I'm so tired that I want to end this quickly. I was not sure what I want to end. I just cried.

Luckily I have my supports. My friends and family are the only one I trusted. I listened to their solution. I accepted the fact that my life is not all about work and study. I work because I have to earn money. I have to study to get a degree for me to get better job. This hard time only for few years more. I pushed myself to go on with it. Complete all the task, fulfill all the time with activity. I can get rest during nights after my worktime and studies. I always have time to rest but I didn't knew it at first because I always cried and be alone during night time before.

I changed my mindset. I began to step up and live with my life. I find my purpose. I'm not going to stop until I've tried. Whatever the result shows, I've done my best. Now it has been 4 years since I started my studies. I left with 2 years to complete my degree. I hope I chase my dream to become an accountant.

Whatever you do, don't give up.