TIME MANAGEMENT

Muhamad Hafifi Ajwad bin Muhamad Zaidi 2012791305 Nur Fitrah binti Kamaruzaman 2012336961 Nurul Nadirah binti Abdullah 2012151443 EH2213A Mdm Parimala

Background Information
The insufficient feeling of time for a day. Manage the 24 hours per day in a good manner. Time management among student especially by university students, factors that should be look up seriously. Time management The process of skilfully applying time to finish and perfect a specific activity within time constraint (Harris, 2008)

 Time management is one of the most important skill. Unwell time management lead to bad impact and negative issues. Students often take granted of their 24 hours per day in doing their duty as a student. Time management issue among university students is commonly being discussed and still need to be explored and observe until now.

Objectives
To find out how students spend their free time To determine how students prepare for tests and examinations To find out how students manage their time for academic purposes

Findings
Profile of respondents Gender: 51.52% respondents female ,48.5% respondents male Age : 20 years old (15.15%), 21 years old (21.21%), 22 years old (48.5%) and 23 years old (15.15%) Allowance per month: (36.4%) RM100- RM200, (33.34% )RM200- 400, (27.3%) RM400-RM600, (3.03% ) More than RM600

Findings
Time spent on activities during free time by students
Students participation Activities done per day Time spent on leisure activities Return back to hometown Making daily schedule Part time job

Students Participation

45% 55%

Yes
No

It can be concluded that students are lack of the motivation to participate in universities programme. This may due to the reason that they have many assignments or course works that have to be done.

Activities done per day

9%
Leisure Activities 27% 46% Computer Games Sports Revision 18%

Time spent on leisure activities

21% 30%

49%

8-12 hours 4-6 hours 6-8 hours

It can be concluded that majority of students like to spend most of their free time on leisure activities instead of activities that are beneficial to them. This is similar to Shragge (2010), student spend hours on the leisure activities in spite of others.

Return back to hometown

39%
61%

Yes No

Based on the research, it can be concluded that students spend most of their time away from their hometown. This is because students are busy with their assignments and tasks that needed to be completed during the semester and also the distance of their hometown.

Making daily schedule

4%

Yes No
96%

Based on the research, it can be conclude that the students awareness of the importance in having daily schedule among student is relatively low. This is because most students feel that having daily schedule is not vital in their life.

Part time job

9%
Yes

91%

No

It can be concluded that most of students did not like to spend time working during studying in universities. As Nonis (2006) stated that, working hours per week will leave student less time for studying outside classes therefore students did not like to spend time working on part time.

Findings
Time spent by students to prepare for the test
Last minute preparation Time spent by students for last minute preparation Preparing timetable for test Influence of time table Preferred time to begin preparation for test

Last Minute Preparation

57.6% of the respondents preferred to study last minute before the test 42.4% did not prefer to study last minute before the test It can be concluded that respondents prefer to study last minute because they think that they can complete all the revision on time.

Time Spent by student for last minute preparation

2 hours before 12.1%

others 15.2%

4 hours before 21.2% 6 hours before 51.5%

Preparing timetable for test and its influence

54.5% of the respondents did not plan a timetable for their upcoming test 45.5% planned a timetable for their upcoming test It was found that 93.3% of the respondents agreed that the plan they made helped them score on their test while 6.7% of the respondents disagreed that the plan they made helped them score on their test.

Preferred time to begin preparation before test

A day before two days before a week before

15.4% 50%

34.6%

It can be concluded that respondents prefer to begin their revision a week before because they can prepare earlier for the test hence get a good results.

Findings
Time spent by students for academic purposes
Frequency of planning timetable Hours spend for revision Preferred way of study Time management for academic purposes Good time management on students academic performance

Frequency of planning timetable

48.5% sometimes made a timetable 27.3% did not made 24.2% made a timetable for the academic purposes Conclusion: Most of the respondents sometimes make a timetable. According to Majid A. (2010), a schedule helps in utilizing time more productively and helps to complete course in particular time.

Preferred way of study

64.7% preferred to study by themselves 35.3% chose to study with friends in group Conclusion: Most of the respondents prefer to study by themselves. By study alone can give more concentration, independent and well organized.

Hours spend for revision

Conclusion: Most of respondents spend between 4 to 7 hours per week for their study revision. According to Plant E.A. et al., (2005); Rau and Durand (2000) the real benefits on students are only seen for students studying over 14 hours per week.

8-10 hours 12% 1-3 hours 36% 4-7 hours 53%

Time management for academic purposes

60.6% agreed that their time management for academic purposes was good 39.4% of the respondents disagreed Conclusion: Most agree that their time management for academic purposes is in good quality because their time management is suitable and fit based on ones daily schedule.

Good time management on students academic performance

All of the respondents agree that good time management in academic influence students academic performance.
Conclusion: According to Plant E.A. et al., (2005), it might seem that the more time that student spends studying, the better grades they should receive.

Recommendation
Educate students about time management Increase awareness of the importance of making daily schedule Organized activities that can attract university student

Thank You