Instrumentation
A questionnaire was used as the instrument to collect data. It consisted of 3 main parts as follow:
Part 1: Respondents’ personal data
Part 2: Respondents’ preparation to university examination
Part 3: Respondents’ opinions and comment
Part 1: Personal data form was developed to collect respondents’ sex, release program
Part 2: Respondents’ method used to prepare for university examination and their and reason to choose the methods which choose for 3 methods and 3 reasons that mostly match their methods and reason.
There are 8 methods for the respondents to choose such as
- Read books manually
- Take extra lesson
- Summary important contents
- Study in class deliberately
- Write Mind-Mapping with highlighter or colored pen
- Worship holy thing
- Eat and drink brain food
- Other methods that respondents use
There are 8 reasons for the respondents to choose such as
- Make the contents easier to understand.
- Have more techniques and methods to do the test faster.
- Have important content and frequent test direction
- Become more concentrate and study faster
- Colors make the content more notable.
- Keep the mind calm
- Make the body and the brain stronger
- Other reason that respondents choose
Part 3: Open question were used for other opinions and comments from methods, techniques and tactics used to prepare for university examination