I divided the priorities to three groups: A is the most important, B is the important, and C is less important than the others. I than went over my syllabus for all of my classes, and checked what I need to do for the week. (Of course) There were fair amount of homeworks. I had some quizzes and tests to do, and also had 2 exams that I needed to study. When I was ranking my works, I had a hard time deciding which is more important or not, because everything seems important to me. So, I decided to rank the works that counts more in grading. Because the exam takes great amount of a class' grade, I ranked the exams as the most important priority, which goes to the A section. The quizzes and tests, which take fair amount of grades, are also placed in the A section. But, before I study for the exams, quizzes, and tests, I decided to do the homeworks first. Unlike the tests, homeworks have limit amounts, so I can finish the homeworks, and have time left to do the studies. Section B is mostly homeworks or study beforehand. Reading assignment are placed in section C, because they are going to be covered duriing class.
Thanks to the Ranking List, I was able to recognize what I need to do first. As I finished my works one by one, I crossed off the list that I accomplished, so I can know what I did finished. Starting with the A section, I accomplished my works one by one. Unlike when I tried to figure out my priorities in my head, the ranking list really helped me because I could see my priorities with my eyes. It was a big help in managing my time, and I was able to work in an organized way.
Nice Nice Job Yong Rhee. Apparently, that wasn't the method I used. Unlike me, you have created a nice chart for yourself. I have done it on my planner. We all have different ways of analyzing and visualizing. Personally, using a planner was a better method of me instead of creating all that chart as I can visualize the workloads on daily basis. I hope that you keep this in mind and in future, you take the planner into consideration when you are planning all the stuff out. However, if chart works for you, keep well at it. The strategy worked greatly and efficiently for me, I hope its the same for you my man.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised how there is another person who has used a similiar strategy as I did! I am also glad how there's another person who finds this strategy to be useful! I definately 100% agree on the fact that it lets us to see the whole priorities in our eyes. I also had problem on deciding what to do first and this strategy definately helped me out on deciding the order! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a unique way of utilizing ranking priority strategy to their own. I see the benefit of categorizing and separating tasks into three columns which make sense in many ways. For students without a smart phones, this is one of the better method of using the ranking priority strategy and adapt to their own. But I don't like the idea of constantly making new columns for the new tasks everyday or each week.
ReplyDeleteThis method is also different from mine. Unlike your schedule, my schedule is pretty straight-forward. I would have daily assignments every week which basically sums up my schedule. So if there weren't any major projects in that week, I can just follow the usual schedule and get things done on time. However, I have to say that we've reached the same result by priortizing our works: we can do it!
ReplyDeleteThat is a nice chart you did. I did it the similar way as well. I can tell that your chart is very organized but at the same time, it can become dull to be reading them all the time. So what you can do is maybe highlight different things into different colors you know, put the RED ALERT in, then the GREENS the BLUES just to make them stand out to you more. Ya Know? Glad to hear that it helped you out as well, and I like to finish my homework first before I actually get to studying. Nice work Agent!
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