REFLECTIVE ESSAY ON MY EXPERIENCE OF BEING PART OF ECP

ECP is a very good program for all students to take, as all of us are from a secondary school and as we all know that secondary schools do not prepare us for the university. The university life and work is way too different from the secondary life and work..but ECP helps to pick you up and get you ready for university. 

ECP contains three modules, which are LFS 151, MAM 150 and ISC 153, and ISC 153 is divided into 5 sections which are, AL, QL, CL, LL and IL. All the three modules that we are doing are the starting point of the university life...getting us ready for university.

The experience that i gained in LFS 151 is about life and the environment. Most of the stuff we did them in secondary but we did not go deeply into the topics, but with LFS 151 we go deeply into the topics, and learn more about life and organisms. Our LFS 151 lecturer mrs Maryke uses movie or clips a lot to help us even more on what we will be learning, which i find it more helpful because sometimes it is hard to understand what is written in the book but when she start explaining using the clips, it becomes more easier and more fun, I think we should use clips all the time.

The experience i gained in MAM 150 is not really a lot as we did maths in secondary, but the only difference with MAM 150 is that the university math is more difficult than the secondary math, and in secondary they used to give us formula sheet and in university they expect us to know all the formulas by heart, but our mam 150 try hard to help us with every difficulties we have and they provide us with formula sheets to help us.

 The experience i gained in ISC 153 is really a lot. I Think ISC 153 is the major subject of ECP as it teaches us everything. At the begging of the year when they introduced ISC 153 to us, i thought it was i total different thing, i thought it was about science and the basic formulas of physical science. I thought maybe it is physical sciences but the easy one, not knowing how challenging it is, and needs more time as it has lots of work. ISC 153 is very helpful as it helps us with our critical thinking, vocabulary, how to write and think scientifically, graduate attributes, how to use coherence makers, and more. 

Overall the ECP is very helpful, and i think each i every student who starts the university should start with this program as it gives one a foundation of what the university is all about, and prepares one to be a good scientist in future, as one learn about how to become a good scientist and how to write and think scientifically, and how to do the researches and experiments.