E-Business #1

First Meeting of e-business class.

This day i wake up late as previous day makes me exhausted. Then, Going to campus at 1 pm, attending late Indonesia Student Association (PPIA) meeting, and than waiting outside QUAD001 to meet member of 180.

Sadly, I meet person who actually the president of 180 and i event don’t know. Worst, i don’t use the chance to pitch myself and giving some good impression.

I have read all of the pre reading course before and it comes not help to much.

First group presentation was assigned and i voluntary present first time along with other 2 group member from china and venezuela.

I still thinking about clarity of my speech, and hopefully it can goes better along the time i longer spend in university

 

 

TOEFL IBT, PBT, dan ITP

Terjadilah Percakapan berikut

F : Aku mw daftar ke univ amerika, enak toefl ITP atau IBT ?

A : Kalau untuk internasional gunakan TOEFL IBT (internet based test), harganya hampir 3 juta

F : Aku coba TOEFL ITP aja lebih murah, cuma 350rb,

A : Lho, jangan, nanti tidak bisa dipakai untuk daftar univ , 3 juta memang mahal, but worth investment dibandingkan beli hape baru

F : Bisa kok, pake toefl ITP

A: Univ apa yang menerima toefl ITP ?

F : Univ ini …………

A: Mana Linknya ? yang menyatakan ITP ?

F : Ini ……………………………..”The minimum TOEFL score required for all applicants to the Faculty of Graduate Studies is 80 for the internet-based exam and 550 for the paper-based exam”

Minimalnya 550

A: Hmm, TOEFL PAPER BASED TEST itu berbeda dengan TOEFL ITP.  TOEFL ITP (institusional) biasanya digunakan untuk institusi local. Memang beberapa beasiswa seperti Fullbright menerima TOEFL ITP, tapi di persyaratannya bukan ditulis Paper Based melainkan jelas jelas TOEFL ITP,  itupun jika sudah lulus beasiswa aminef dan mw mendaftar ke univ Amerika, biasanya diminta lagi skor TOEFL IBT nya

Paper Based yang asli harganya juga hampir 3 juta, namun hanya diselenggarakan di negara negara yang akses internetnya masih susah. Selebihnya semuanya digantikan toefl IBT

F; OMG ………….thanks infonya

 

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Satu Kesalahan yang bisa berakibat fatal 🙂

Link terkait yang menjelaskan perbedaan ketiganya

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-TOEFL-ITP-IBT-and-PBT

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_of_English_as_a_Foreign_Language#Paper-based_Test_2

 

So, for scholarship hunter, jika ingin daftar ke luar negeri, pilihannya hanyalah 2, IELTS atau TOEFL IBT, dimana harga keduanya hampir sama.

Tentu unfair jika toefl ITP yang biayanya hanya 10% dari kedua ujian di atas juga bisa digunakan di seluruh dunia secara global.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing Task #2 : Another Example

Here is another example that I made for writing task 2 answer

 

Question :

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about t he fòlIowim topic:

Some people prefer to live in, a house, while otherrs feel that there are more advantages to living in an apartment. Are there more advantages then disvantages of’ living in a house compared to living in the apartment

 

Write at least 250 words.

Answer

Many of my friends has saving for a years in purpose to buy a single house. Unfortunately, the price of the house in the big city is being crazily increased, overtook his saving every month. He then ends up with buying single apartment which as cheaper price. In general public, especially who live in the big city think that apartment will be better alternative choice than house. Whereas some might believe that this apartment is better choice, I personally think that living in the house presents greater number of advantages.

 

Those in favour of the view that living in the house will be better, have numerous reasons to justify their idea. Living in the house is more flexible than apartment. An household can freely modify their house without asking any permission. They can freely manage any pet, change any decoration and interior freely. Furthermore, living in own house can be more economical. They can set up any electricity in the house as they like, removing any unused thing or switched off any unused gadget. As the result, monthly maintenance cost can be reduced.

 

On the other hand, those opposed to the above idea have their respective reason as well. Many people cannot afforded to buying a house again, so they choose apartment which has cheaper price. In addition, when purchasing a single apartment, they already good all complete furniture and other housewife tools. It makes living in the apartment become more efficient. Nevertheless, despite of cheaper price, a lot of apartment have higher monthly fee such as for electricity, security, or trash service. They always need to pay same amount of money even they have different usage of electricity everty month. Moreover, if the apartment is located in the higher floor (mostly more than 10th floor), the cost of water is very expensive because it needed higher power to pumping the water from the ground.

 

To sum up, I think living house will become better choice for people. Instead of its flexibility, its low annual maintenance fee can be taken as a consideration. Cheaper price of apartment cannot be taken as a consideration as well as the monthly expenses also very expensive overtook the house itself.

#1 Course IELTS

Yesterday, I did my first Private IELTS course in Depok. The course was being held in the sweet box café. It is one great journey when I go to there.

Here is the summary what I did

First some of my writing were being assesed, for writing task 1 was scored for 5.5.

Things went bad went it came to writing task 2. I only scored 4 to 5. The major problem is I did not answer the question, on the other hand the content problem. If I do not try to do something, this problem gonna to be worse.

One comment was I must use more conjuntion like Moreover, Furthermore, after That.

After that, the presentation was given to me. Its about writing task 2. Overall, there were only 5 types of question in writing task 2

1. Agree / disagree, here we must give our choice
2. Adavantages and disdavantages. This divided into 2 sub topics
   1. If the question like ” Are there more advantages than disadvantages” . It mean that we must choose between the advantages and disadvantages
   2. If the question like ” What are the advantages and disadvantages” we explain both and let the reader choose one
3. 1. Problem and Solution
   2. Both views and Opinion
   3. Free Question

 

Then I practiced to do brainstorming activity. For example, the topic is about

“smoking in public places should be banned. Do you agree or disagree”

 

Then I made some map like this. I must make two option each, and this was the hardest part. I must make sure that the two option is not related each other

Agree	Disgree	Denial
Respect other right to get fresh air	They have own right to smoke.
Keep other people health (this is WRONG because related to the first one)	Use their own money : This is WRONG because related to the first one
Children can get imitate to do same thing	Govvernetment indirectly loose money	Not really, because can be allocated to other sector

 

Here is the idea

I must choose whether I want to explain agree or disagree. Let say I choose Agree.

So in the second paragraph, I told about two option af the agreement. First option become main sentence, and additional three sentences for supporting the main sentences. Same thing applied to the second sentence

 

In the third paragraph, I choose one option of disagreement, set it up as a main sentence and again additional 3 sentences for supporting sentences.

Still in the same paragraph, I must choose one sentence for denial for disagreement option I choose. Additional three sentences also applied

Last is the conclusion.

Next I learn to write good Introduction. It can be global outline or story related to the problem.

For example, Question ” Do you agree or diasgree if its hard to find a reason to attend physical class because online class already available”

First, I made some outline

Agree	Denial	Disagree
Efficient and cost saving	Infrastructure cost also expensive	Bad internet Connection
		Lecture cannot face student to asses directly

 

Here is the introduction

Nowadays, tuition fee to enter university is very expensive. Some people believe that switching tradtional class meeting into online class via internet can solve this problem. It is because the maintenance cost of the class will be reduced. However, unlike many others, I totally disagree with this opinion

 

Those who disagree have their own reason. One of the reason is bad internet connection, Not all places have good internet connection. Even they have,it is very costly especially to conducting online class. If only university has high speed of internet connection whereas their student don’t the class will be useless. Furthermore, another reason is lecture cannot face student to asses their student directly. Lecture need to see their student expression while teaching to asses their understanding. After that, lecturer can decide either to stop or change the way he explains the lesson. This kind of thing cannot be controlled if the class being held online

On the other hand, those who agree say that it will be very efficient and cost saving if the class being held through internet. It will reduced maintenance class for maintaining the classroom such as cleaning service, air conditioner, and electricity. Furthermore, the lecture and student who live far away from university do not need to spend additional money for transportation. They just sit down in their own room and the class can continued as usual. However, despite of reduced maintenance cost and transportation, Building infrastructure to conduct perfect online class is very expensive. A lot thing need to be considered such as high speed broadband internet connection, high speed cable or wireless tool, and dedicated technician to support if any technical problem occur. As the result, most of the university with online class facility have expensive tuition fee also. In addition, each student must prepared the internet connection by themselves, which means additional expenses for the course.

To conclude, I think that physical class should not be banned completely because some problem still remain such as bad internet connection. Moreover, finding right method to asses student indirecly seem impossible to be done by lecturer. Reducing maintenance cost is not appropriate reason as well as the infrastructure cost is also very expensive

New assignment, new try

This morning, i am trying again to spread my business card. Sitting in the minimart and waiting student for come is not a good idea. I think, spread it across the street will become better idea.
Hope i can try it again tomorrow.

I also got announcement that i will be sent to papua for a job. not bad to get a new experience.

Pasta Tower

Today I have interesting activity in IT Enterpreneruship course. This activity called “Pasta Tower”. First, we must form a group consist of 6 member each. After that, we must build a tower from a material given such as jelly, fettucine (like spagetti), elbow and penni (basic ingredients for making pasta). More interesting thing is that we need to buy all of these thing. We must calculate and design the building carefully to make sure that we do not buy too much material. At the end, strength of the building is tested by placing pieces of paper. One piece of paper give us RM100. After that, calculate it with the same amount of material we buy. The differences between our fee and cost give a profit.  More pieces of paper placed, more profit we get.

 

Time limit given is 2 hours. But it seems all of the group done it more than 2 hours. My group also spend about 2 hours++. First thing come in my mind is build a cube shape building. Unfortunately practise is more difficult than an idea.  We didn’t build a good building, but good enough to hold 12 pieces of paper. I hope we can place more if there is not strong wind blowing and completely destroy our building.  Yeah, at least we still get profit, even there is only minmum profit (RM 50).

 

Actually today class is very interesting for me, because I’ve usually do similar activity in the organizational activity like training for leadership, public speaking, and teamwork. At the end of the activity, our lecturer tell about teamwork, coordination, leadership,  creativity, cooperation, innovation and patience is the important things that we can get.

Hope can get similar activity in another class J)