Preface: Life as a part time tuition teacher

“For me, the most important thing is not the amount of the money. The more important thing is the experience which is not changeable with money.”

  Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! It is the Independence Day but my topic today is not about the National Day, haha. Waoh, it looks like I had been long time not creating a new post for this blog. (Half of a month is quite a long time for me. But believe me, I was not lazy ah, I was just too busy to write a new post)
  Alright, now we should proceed to the main topic I would like to share today.

Starting
  A part time tuition teacher might be a good choice in some of the people’s view since they think that it can assist them in building their self-confidence. Imagine that you have to prepare more than what a student prepares in order to teach your students. Remember that you did collected money from them, so it is your responsibility to give them a good “service”, haha. Therefore, you will need to be more confident to deliver that knowledge to your students, by presenting it to them.
  For some of you, you may think that a part time tuition teacher is not a really great choice since the money you earn is really less, as compared to a temporary teacher in a school, and even less than a part time shop worker.

The Second Time of My Life

  Indeed, this was the second time I chose to become a part time tuition teacher when I was waiting to pursue my studies in the next stage. The first time was after SPM. I was again determined to become a part time tuition teacher after being demanded by one of my students’ parents. The student I taught

before after SPM, as I was the part time tuition teacher also. 

  I only had two classes per week in the first week as a part time tuition teacher. After that, the classes stepped up one by one until in the end of July, that was one month before my last tuition class, I had one class almost everyday. 

  Since tuition class can only be held after the school hours, I can only organize the class in the evening and also on weekends. At night, I cannot have any classes since my residential area is too dark, with no street lamps at all. Therefore, I am not allowed by my parents to go out at night since it is too dangerous. 

  Actually, another reason I become a part time tuition teacher is I would like to help the students to be excellent in their studies. I taught them Additional Mathematics, Mathematics(My favorite subjects,hihi) and Biology(which is one of the subjects I hate the most in SPM but I don’t know why do I like it by now after teaching it).

Not an easy job

  Becoming a part time tuition teacher is not an easy job. Although it is quite flexible and I actually chose this job also because it allowed me to cancel class anytime when I need to manage my stuff, it is still not an easy job (as I did mentioned in the previous sentence). I had to make the questions for the students, rearrange them according to the difficulty so that my students can understand it and print the questions in the printing shop. Besides, I also need to prepare myself so that I can deliver the most accurate knowledge to my students. I did all of these since I did not enter any tuition center and my tuition is one-to-one tuition, something like tutor. However, my fee was quite low, that was around RM15-30 in 2 hours. I often extend my classes to maximize the knowledge and the techniques for my students.

Two different things

  Teaching and learning are two different things. Learning may require you to score well in the examination but does not require you to be perfect. However, teaching is a totally distinct thing.It requires you to be 100% equipped so that you are able to teach the students well. You even need to know more than what is written in the textbooks.

Most important thing

  After you read my post, you may question me on why I still chose to become a part time tuition teacher since the income is really less and the workload is even more than other jobs. For me, the most important thing is not the amount of the money. The more important thing is the experience which is not changeable with money. Along my journey to become a lecturer in the university, I need this kind of experience. 

  Through this job, I understood what a student nowadays need and what they think when they are learning. Becoming a part time tuition teacher made me understand what kind of teaching style is appropriate for each kind of students. Some of them may need more patience from the teacher while some of them are really independence. They will go and find the information by themselves. 

More than a teacher

  So, becoming a teacher is not only about helping the students to be an excellent student but also motivating them to be well-informed. Sometimes, I also needed to motivate them on the life after their SPM and all the necessary information they need to know.

  I think these are all I can share for now. Well, 4 more days for me to depart to UUM to kick off my journey becoming a Business Mathematics Major. Happy National Day and Aku Negaraku.

My last class was in my secondary school and it took 6 hours,haha. Really exhausting but I love this job! Now suddenly feel sad pulak, haha..

2017-08-31
11.15 am
Malaysiaku Berjaya
Selamat Hari Merdeka
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Preface: Preparation Before The Registration

  Same as other students who are going to further their studies in IPTA in this end of August and the early of September, a lot of preparations have to be done by myself in order to become a Business Mathematics major in UUM. These steps really make me tired but nothing I can do, I can just follow whatever being instructed. However, the sacrifice is valuable since I will be a true Business Maths major student in UUM once I completed my registration!
  This is what I heard from my secondary school teacher. “A student is not the student of the IPTA if he has not being registered. The offer given is just a temporary offer. Once he is registered, then only he is officially the student of the university.” This is why I paid 100% of my effort preparing everything for the registration.
  Here I would like to share the preparations needed before the registration.

1. Checking the offer online

This is the first compulsory step everyone should do. (If not how do you know which university you are offered?” You may browse upu.mohe.gov.my to get the UPU result or go to the respective university website to check it. For UUM, I just clicked ASIS UUM in Mr. Google and I got to the website very easily. I still remembered the day before the official release date, some of my friends checked online already since there are some problems with UUM official site. Technical problems I think.

2. Announcement

After you check through UPU, if you are the lucky person, you will get the “Congratulations!” notice.
However, if you failed to get any offer, do not be sad. You can still try to appeal through 2 official ways and 1 unofficial way. The official ways are of course appeal through UPU system and another one, the MCA website. The appealing process is often opened for around 1 week but the MCA’s will only opened for 3 days, take note. The unofficial way is you must write an appealing letter by yourself and go to see the dean for the faculty for the course you would like to enter. 90% of the people who did so succeed in getting their course. This is the importance of the true attitude indeed. On the release date, I was really nervous since I did not know which university and which course I will be offered. Indeed, I hope that I was offered with my first and second choice in UPU. I am really glad when I knew that I was offered with my first choice, that is Business Maths in UUM.

3. Downloading and Printing Documents and Forms

Of course, after that, you will need to print the forms and documents needed. Just follow the steps. Basically, the documents and forms we need to print out are the Temporary Offer Letter, the Student Biodata Form, the Medication Permission Letter and the form for Takaful. Once I entered the UUM website, I was not shocked when I noticed that I need to print a lot of documents and forms since I had done before for my Matriculation. The number of forms and documents needed are almost the same.

4. Paying the Registration Fee

After that, you should pay the registration fee in the nearby Bank Islam. If you cannot afford, don’t worry, you can still pay the fee when you got WPP from PTPTN. The registration fee is around RM 2100+. I photocopied the slip and keep it for the later use.

5. PTPTN
Oh yeah, before I forgot, there is another step needed to be done by the students. I myself do not do since I plan to further my lepasan Bursary scholarship for my studies. You need to purchase a PIN in the nearby BSN and browse the PTPTN website. Follow the guide given to you in your university website. I am pretty sure that they will provide you the guide. If you want to know, you will need to pay back PTPTN after you graduated, with 1% annual interest as what I know. Therefore, think wisely before you apply for it. If possible, I suggest you to get a scholarship, it is better. For scholarship, you can go to Afterschool.my/scholarship.

6. Photocopy the documents
The next step is photocopying the documents. The documents required are SPM certificate, STPM/Matriculation/Diploma/A Level Transcript/Cert, the School Leaving Cert, the Testimonials, the Extracurricular activities cert for both secondary school level and the pre-university level and also MUET certs and your IC, your parents’ IC. These are for UUM. I am not really sure if other universities also require the same things. I photocopied everything but my Matriculation transcript has not arrived when I am writing these. (This is sad..Why not reach earlier, haha)

7. Certifying the documents
After checking all the things, the final step will be getting the certification from the Ketua Kampung/Penghulu and the Group A government staffs. If you cant get any, I suggest you to find your secondary school teachers. They are willing to help you. I myself went to the Ketua Kampung and he easily certified the documents, haha.

8. Other preparations
Here are also some other preparations you need to do.
I) Getting all the basic necessities you will need for your hostel life. Since we are going to stay in the hostel later and I am sure ALL the first year students are compulsory to stay in the hostel, we need to bring the things we needed for hostel life later.
II) Getting the transport. You should find the transport for yourself to register in the university on the first day. Get the railway route and the bus route if you want to board a train or a bus. If not, try to investigate the route to your university so that you wont be nervous on that day. Plan your way.
III) Mentally prepare yourself. After the registration day, you are going to leave your family. So, please do prepare yourself since some of you may be suffering from homesickness. I myself also do not deny that. But, luckily Matriculation life before made me stronger.

These are all I can think for now. Any additional things you may refer to your respective seniors from the university. Anyway, UUM, I am coming!

2017-08-16
10.43 am

Less Number of Taxes or Lower Rates of Taxes?

  Before I start to compose this post, I would like to explain something. This is just an economic article, it is nothing to do with any political issue. So, please do not write anything related to political issues in the comment space since it may offend the National Law.
  Now, I am going to write this article. The idea actually comes when I read the newspaper today. The government is going to lower the rate of the individual income tax so that it will release the citizens’ burden. However, the idea is still in planning stage and has not been introduced in the parliament yet.
  Relating this, I am going to say something in the aspect of the economic theory. In economics, as what we know, the rate of taxes will be only lowered if the country experiences deflation. The reason is just simple, that is to increase the monetary supply among the consumers.
  However, in my view, our country does not show any symptom of deflation. The price of the goods is still high due to some of the firms which abuse the implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST). The idea of GST is actually good but the way of execution spoils the idea. In economics, inflation is actually defined as the continuous increase of the price of the goods. So, our country obviously does match the symptom of the phenomena.
  The reason given by the government for lowering the rate of the income tax really made me speechless. They said they had collected the enough amount of GST upon the implementation. I took quite much time to rethink of the statement released from the government. This is really nothing to do with the economic situation today. The lowering of the rate may make the citizens glad, most probably by this the government can get more attention from the citizens in the next general election.
  By the way, I think they should explain more on the GST amount they collect since its introduction on 1st of April 2015. How much did the government earn in this 2 years and 4 months of implementation? I think we should be able to get the rough amount even though they did not announce it (but they actually did).
  In the early of the implementation for GST, I still remember that everyone is blaming the government, since they have to pay more taxes to the government. However, in my opinion, this is really necessary to the nation for the continuous development and the sustainability of the financial status of the country. Nowadays, GST is already familiar for you and I.
  Back to our topic, is it better for us to have less number of taxes or lower rate of taxes? Both are good, it just depends on how we think. :-)

13-08-2017
2.50 pm

Introduction

  Heading to the Bachelor’s of Degree (Hons.) in Business Mathematics in UUM is not an easy decision for me, who once chose to be an accountant when I first changed my stream for Pure Science to Accounting, but then again determined to further my studies in the maths course after receiving motivation from my lecturer(maybe “s”) in Matriculation and friend who are also heading to the maths course(but he is not in the same course with me, of course).
  “Maths? What are you going to do?” This is the first perception from almost all of you when you heard that there are some “crazy” people (or probably mad) who choose to pursue their studies in Maths. Yes, I agree. The first moment when I heard that my friend (I am not going to mention his name here) is just very clear, that is “Can get any jobs or not upon graduation?”, even though I myself am also interested in Maths. The reason for me to choose Accounting at first is also very simple, that is I want to get more money! But then, everything changed when I entered Matriculation.
  I still remembered in my first class, my lecturer asked our lecture on our ambition upon our graduation in pre-university course. 90% of us chose to be accountants. But then, upon the graduation, almost 80% of us chose to be other things else, this looks funny and interesting right?
  Indeed, my interest on Maths exceeded other subjects since I was in my primary school.
The reason is just very simple, that is challenging! Maths can be very interesting, at least in my view. Okay, I think it is time to end my introduction since I think this introduction is not an introduction anymore if I continue to compose on it.
  Hopefully, this is the best choice I chose for myself.
  Oh ya, I forgot to mention, I made this blog to share my life in UUM on Business
Mathematics later and also, to share my knowledge here apart from sharing my opinion on the current issues I read on vast medias. Thanks for reading every single word here.