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tips to make concentration on study

tips to make concentration on study

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Gayatri Jayesh Bondriya
521 Points
8 years ago
Tips and strategies to improve your concentration
Choose the right place to study
Your choice of study space can influence your level of concentration. So, to promote concentration:
    Choose a dedicated study space in an environment conducive to study.
    Make sure you have a good chair, a table or desk, somewhere to store your books, a PC, adequate lighting, and good ventilation.
    Make sure your study space is tidy, organised and a pleasant place in which to work.
    Put a 'Do not disturb' sign on the door.
    Leave your cell phone outside or turn it off.
    If you like music in the background, that’s okay, as long as it’s not a distraction. (Research on productivity with music versus without music is inconclusive.)
Plan
    Draw up a study timetable and stick to it.
    Accommodate your day/night-time energy levels.
    Get into a routine and make study a habit.
    Divide your work into logical sections that have a beginning and an end: our brains are holistic and you’ll find it easier to work on something that forms a whole than something that's left hanging midway.
    Set yourself a time limit before you start, for example: 'I’ll summarise Chapter 2 in 40 minutes.'
    - By doing this, you're setting yourself a goal and,
    - when you set a time limit, your subconscious mind starts working on completing the task in the time available.
    Study for about 30-45 minutes, review what you’ve learned, then take a 5-10 minute break. Why? Because research has shown that we
    - remember best when we study for shorter periods, and then recap and consolidate what we have learnt, as opposed to longer periods when we have to struggle to stay focused and alert.
    - learn better at the beginning and end of a study period. (Think of a movie: it’s often easier to remember the beginning and the end than the middle). So, take regular breaks and build lots of beginnings and ends into your study.
Focus
    Before you begin studying, take a few minutes to think about what you’ll achieve.
    Write down your goals for the study period, i.e. summarise pages 40-65, complete the outline of Assignment 1.
    Make sure you have everything you need: your notes, stationery, water, a healthy snack, etc.
    Use active learning  to keep you focused.
    If you have a lot of reading to get through, try the SQ3R method.  
Build in variety
    Change the subject or study strategy every few hours – this will lessen the chance of your becoming bored and stale.
    Use your study break for exercise (or perhaps housework); this changes the pace and helps to get rid of extra adrenalin.
    Alternate reading with more active learning exercises, for example: mindmapping or writing model answers.
Just say 'Stop!'
    Every time you notice your thoughts wandering, tell yourself to 'stop' and then consciously bring your thoughts back to your studies.
    Repeat this each time your mind wanders, and re-focus.
    Initially, you might have to do this many times each study session but with practice, you'll find that you are able to focus for longer periods at a time.
    If you find it almost impossible to re-focus, it could be that you need a break:
    - Take a five-minute break, have a glass of water, and try again.
    - You could also try switching to another subject or topic, or using a different study strategy.
    Don't waste your time and energy trying to stop yourself from thinking of something, that’s almost impossible. Instead, write your thoughts down on a piece of paper and put it aside to deal with during your ‘worry time’! (See below.)
Schedule worry time
    Allow yourself to worry but only at certain set times during the day.
    Decide beforehand when and for how long you’re going to worry, for example: set aside ten minutes 'worry time' before Shortland Street (or whatever your favourite programme is). Then, when something distracts you while you're studying, or if you start to feel anxious about something during the day, write your thoughts down and set them aside, telling yourself you’ll deal with them during your 'worry time'.
    Remember:
    It’s important to write your 'worries' down - it’s far easier to refocus on your studies if you know you won’t forget whatever it is that’s troubling you.
    Stick to your worry time(s) and use the whole time you set aside. If you don’t have enough to worry about to fill the time, make a conscious decision to reduce the length of your worry time.
    Keep a list of your worries – if something keeps coming up, deal with it! Rather spend some time sorting the issue out than allowing it to keep distracting you and preventing you from reaching your goals.
Learn actively
Last, but definitely not least, to help you concentrate and remember, learn actively. Active learners do something with what they have learnt. They
    put what they have learnt into their own words.
    compare what they are learning with what they already know.
    link new facts to what they already know.
    apply what they are learning to their own situation, and
    use the new information.
Study tips, techniques and strategies to help you concentrate
Soneel Verma
823 Points
8 years ago
Stay focused on your studies and keep in mind that one must focus on Physics, Chem and Maths, try to fortify these three, take some coaching classes from a reputed place like Akash Inst etc, then to download previous years’ question paper of JEE mains and advanced and practice solving them, try to enhance speed to answer maximum questions in lesser possible time and finally appear in Jee mains – do well – then appear in JEE Advanced – do well again, It would be better if you would mix the subjects that is do Physics for two-three days, then, may be shift to some topic of Chemistry or Math. This would help keeping things not-exhausting.Now, once you have brushed up a topic, solve some random problems from a book specifically on that topic.Now the most important task during all this is to mark the examples or formulae you find difficult to remember and then keep an eye on IITs/NITs counselling rounds and thus institutions are allotted otherwise there may be second option to visit the official websites of some renowned institutions offering technical studies....to name a few – LOvely Professional Uni, Phagwara,.........................BITS Pilani,........................BIT Sindri, Dhanbad,.........................JJTU, RAjasthan

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