Work Plan Analysis: Graph of Average Planned and Utilised Time per Week

The graph above is a work plan analysis graph, a graph to analyze the effectiveness of my work plan. It shows the weekly average time I had planned to use while undertaking personal studies and the average time I actually took in doing personal studies in the 10 weeks of the semester, including mid-semester exam weeks. The graph shows that there is a disparity between the number of hours I had planned to study and what I actually used. In most of the weeks, I never utilized all the time I had planned to undertake personal studies to do so.

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Graph of average planned and utilised time per week
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The graph above is a work plan analysis graph, a graph to analyze the effectiveness of my
work plan (Dalland & Klette, 2014). It is a graph of the weekly average time I had planned to use
while undertaking personal studies and average the time I actually took in doing personal studies
in the 10 weeks of the semester, including mid semester’s exam weeks. I have drawn the graph
with an aim of assessing the effectiveness of my work plan and to determine how disciplined I
was in the ten weeks of the semester in using my planned study time in doing personal studies.
To obtain the data I have used to draw the graph, I developed a personal study timetable by
allocating some few hours for personal studies per day. The time I allocated for each day differed
from one day to another depending on how busy the day would be. I then developed a cross
check timetable template whereby I would fill the number of hours I used for my personal

studies and therefore I came up with two data sets. These are the number of hour I had planned to
study per day and the number of hours I actually studied per day.
In order to draw the graph, I did little bit of data processing so that I could produce data
set fitting for use in drawing of the graph. I calculated weekly average time for the two data sets
and then used this result to draw the graph. The graph shows that there is a disparity between the
number of hours I had planned to study and what I actually used. In most of the weeks I never
utilized all the time I had planned to undertake personal studies to do so. It was only in two
weeks in the whole semester where I was disciplined enough to use all the time I had planned to
use for personal studies (Oaten, & Cheng. 2006), in week five and week 9. Week 7 was the
semester week when I used the least planned time for personal studies. This is because it was the
week when I had my midsemester exam.

References
Oaten, M., and K. Cheng. 2006. Improved self-control: The benefits of a regular program of
academic study. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 28 (1):1-16.
Dalland, C.P. and Klette, K., 2014. Work-plan heroes: Student strategies in lower-secondary
Norwegian classrooms. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 58(4), pp.400 423.