So here is how I prioritized my work for every week. Normally, I will have assignments from each class on a weekly basis. I have workbook assignments for Chinese class, paper assignments for Economics, online quiz for Statistics, and most importantly, blogging and journal assignments for CLS. Now I will priortize them solely based on time consumption level from lowest to highest. Chinese homework takes about half an hour. Online quiz for Statistics takes about fourty minutes. Economics homework takes about an hour. Blogging and journal assignments combined together will take approximately three to four hours. Now, I will priortize them based on how much points it's worth to your grades from lowest to highest. First comes the Statistics as it is essentially a quiz thought it may be treated like a homework. Next is blogging and journal assignments which basically covers up CLS grade points value when major projects and experiments are excluded. Then comes the Economic homeworks where the assignments are counted as 25 % of the grade. Finally, the Chinese assignment comes as last as the assignments are designed to help the student through the course rather than having a high value toward one's grade.
So I combined the time-consumption prioritizing and the grade-point-value prioritizing and reached my final prioritizing tab. First comes out to be CLS (no duh!), then Statistics followed by Economics and Chinese. Now I know what to work on first and what to work on last. I've tried it and it works! CLS takes immensive effort and time and Chinese is a stress-free work. If I was to work the other way around, by the time I reached CLS, I would probably put less of an effort than I would've had when I worked on CLS first. So everybody, start prioritizing!
This is interesting way to do the prioritizing for unlike ours which are categorized by the dates, you categorized the assignments by the earning points and time consuming. I agree on the fact that we should prioritized the most time consuming assignments first! The earlier we work on it, the better the final product will turn out. Unlike you, however, I prioritized the exams and tests for other courses as first for I feel like I should start on the big assignments first than time consuming. Overall, your way of this strategy seems great!! :)
ReplyDeleteAgent Jerry Lee, you just know how to rank the priorities of your workbase. As semaster goes on, you gain more information/knowledge from your classes and there are just heaps and heaps of work to do everytime for every classes. It is a very good idea to do the time comsuming work done first, because they will probably be the work that takes the most effort and count the most for your overall grade. After that is finished with, you go along with your little assignments, such as your page of homework, or in this case, your Chinese homework, which will not take too much of your time/night.
ReplyDeleteanother unique way to utilize ranking priority strategy and make it your own. very interesting. comparing this strategy to the other strategy by adrien and yong, this is another great way to organize and prioritize your assignments and works into neat table-like planner.although I disagree with few of the points you made, it's till a neat way to prioritize your works.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of ranking your priorities based on time consumption and point-value of each assignments/quizzes. What I have done in the past was to prioritize my rankings based on this order: exam -> quizzes -> homework, as this indicates the point-value of assignments. However, I never thought of actually calculating the point-value of each assignments and in the future, I might take your idea into consideration. However, I have used a planner for the creation of ranking priorities. Perhaps you might want to think about using the planner as well as the format is laid out in front of you and it really helps making the planning easier and efficiently as you can visualize how much work you have in a weekly-basis. But overall, a solid job.
ReplyDeleteI am also taking MAT 121 and a language class (Japanese). I agree with your point that there is not much to do for MAT 121, except for the online quiz, which takes only few minutes. However, unlike you, Japanese homeworks really consume a lot of my time; I usually take 1 or 2 hours. My priority ranking list is opposite with your's. I choose doing homework as my most priority, and studying for the tests as the next important work. I guess your ranking the priority is different from my ranking, but I respect your decision. Keep up the good work.
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