Reflective Writing on a Residential Trip

Running head: REFLECTIVE WRITING ON A RESIDENTIAL TRIP
REFLECTIVE WRITING ON A RESIDENTIAL TRIP
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author note:

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In this essay, I will talk about the residential trip, which my institution has organised
and in which I have taken part. This essay will discuss my feelings and experience before,
during and after the residential trip. This type of trips provides many opportunities to get
involved in several new activities and to work with different people and help students to
make new friends. This essay also discusses about what I have learnt about my strengths,
weaknesses and myself. This will help to discuss elaborately my personality, feelings and
experiences before, during and after the residential trip. This essay will give an insight about
my personality based on the scores of the personality test that I have undergone and it had
helped me to perform several of the tasks. This essay also discusses the various residential
tasks that was performed as team, along with a task where we had to run a business and make
of profit of about 8000 pounds.
During the residential trip, I have undertaken few tests and for which scores are given
accordingly. First being the emotional intelligence test, which is divided in four categories, in
that score for self awareness is 4, self management is 7, social awareness is 7 and relationship
management is 7. This test tells us about an individual’s control over their emotions and how
it affect their performance in any task, how one interact with people, how they analyse or
understand a situation and how they can read people.
The score of self-awareness is 4 indicating that I am not very emotionally self-aware
that is I do not have much ability to control my own emotion and to understand how it will
affect my performance in the task. The score of self-management is 7 indicating that I do not
know how to manage my emotions in a way that can help to generate positive interactions
with others and motivate myself in all situations. For social-awareness, the score is 7 showing
that I do not have adequate ability to read situations and people accurately as I cannot
understand and empathise with their emotions. The score for relationship management is 7

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that shows that I cannot understand, analyse and manage relationships with different people
(Parke, Sheo and Sherf 2015).
Second is the Myers Briggs test, which is again divided into four categories; firstly,
extravert which is 44%, secondly sensing which is 12%, thirdly thinking which is 28% and
lastly perceiving which is 6%. This test shows what is our nature, how do we sense, relate,
analyse and take decisions for different situations and persons. This test also indicates our
open-mindedness.
The score of extravert being 44%, which shows that I am not extrovert but is also not
too introvert and feel shy to talk to people. The score of sensing is 12%, clearly indicating
that I prefer to gather information from inner sources like imagination and knowledge rather
than from external sources like sensing. The thinking score is 28% that shows clearly that I
take decisions according to what I feel for a situation rather than thinking and analysing the
situation. The perceiving score is 6%, indicates that I am not very open-minded person, I like
to keep my point of view intact while analysing a situation and see the world through a lens
of organization and planning (Yang, Richard and Durkin 2016).
Third test that I have undertaken is the Barrett value test which is divided into ten
categories, in which I have scored 4 in accountability, 5 in creativity, 7 in ethics, 2 in family,
1 in financial stability, 7 in future generations, 6 in leadership, 3 in personal image, 4 in risk
tasking and 7 in vision. This test gives us the insight of our personality and background. It
tells us about ourselves, our background, what underlies our decisions that we take and our
vision for future. The score in ethics, leadership and future generations indicates that I am a
bit traditional person. My family and financial stability score is the lowest, which means that
I do not have a very influential family background (Kline 2015).

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Fourth being the big five personality test, that is divided in five categories, that are
openness to experience in that I have scored 36, conscientiousness in which the score is 39,
extraversion where I scored 63, agreeableness in which I have scored 9 and natural reactions
in which I have scored 32. The score of the test indicates that I am in the middle of the range
for openness to experience, which means neither I am too traditionalist nor too imaginative, a
bit open-minded person and sometimes is experimental but also is a bit conservative.
The score of 39 for conscientiousness also indicates that I am in the middle of the
range in conscientiousness or work ethic; this means that I am neither fully disciplined nor
disorganised; I am not too efficient and not too spontaneous and do not prefer flexible plans
at all. The score of 63 for extraversion also makes me fall in the middle of the range; thus
indicating that I am neither too introvert nor too extrovert, like to work with others but not
too much friendly in nature, I am assertive but serious too.
The agreeableness score is 9, which indicates that I am quite low in the range
indicating that I am hard-headed, proud, competitive and sceptical too. The natural reactions
score is 32, which again makes me fall in the middle of the range, indicating that neither I
neither am easily prone to worry nor is relaxed; I fall in the range where I feel anxiety and be
upsetbut not easily in a stressful situation (Hoffarth 2018).
Last is the simple personality test, which is again divided into five categories, in
which the score is 56 % for extravert, 66 % for observant, 63 % for thinking, 47 % for
assertive and 53 % for turbulent. I have scored 56 % in extravert that indicates that I am not
too very extrovert but is not at all introvert. I can talk to strangers easily and do not hesitate
while doing it also I am friendly in nature and can mingle easily. The score of observant is 66
%, which is high. This indicates that I am a very good observant, that is my observation skills
are very powerful.