How to improve concentration on studies?also memory?
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(1) Do some meditation before studies in which u can remove all crap in ur mind.\n(2) Make a small pyramid and place just right above ur head. Its said that it increases concentration ( fengshui)\n(3) Study ur favourite subjects first so that u get some sort or confidence and concentration.\n(4) Make sure u dont have any affairs till ur exams are over.\n\nFollow all this and see if it works. It worked for me..
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Think of concentration improvement as a three-step process:\n1. Learn the causes of poor concentration and decide which apply to you;\n2. Understand what you can do to control these factors; and\n3. Make your control habitual.  \n\nLEARN THE CAUSES\n\nCONTROL THE CAUSES\n\nExternal Causes\n\nEnvironmental distractions: TV, chairs that are too comfortable, snacks, other people, etc.\n\nLeave or re-arrange a distracting environment. Go to a library or a classroom when you seriously intend to study.  \n\nNoise: Music with words, conversations\n\nTrain yourself to study away from others and in silence.\n\nInternal Causes\nPhysical distractions: hunger, drowsiness.\n\nPlan to study when you are most alert. Eat a high-protein snack. Do five minutes of light exercise to wake up.  \n\nBoredom, dislike, disinterest\n\nFind a reason which satisfies you for taking the class; talk with other students and the professor.  \n\nAnxiety about studies\n\nMake sure you know how to study effectively. Put the course in perspective.  \n\nIntimidating study tasks\n\nBreak up large tasks into achievable subtasks. Do the most intimidating task first. Give yourself rewards for progress and punishments for avoidance.  \n\nDaydreaming\n\nSeparate daydreams from studying. When your mind starts to wander, write down the interrupting thought and continue studying. Or recall important points and then turn away from your book and continue to daydream. When you're ready to read again, do so. The trick is not to daydream and read at the same time.  \n\nPersonal worries\n\nIdentify and define the problem and develop a concrete, specific plan to resolve personal worries. Talk with someone who can help: a friend, a counselor, a specialist.\n\nMAKE CONTROL HABITUAL\nEven if you lapse into old habits of distraction and daydreaming, keep insisting of yourself that you concentrate using these controls until you can routinely concentrate well on your studies for fifty minutes of every hour.
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Try not to study the same subject continuously.Keep getting up everytime for reasons like sip of water, tribbling basketball and in this way continue longer.Take care once you get up you come back soon to continue......\nCheck the level of pace you need to continue
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the easy answer is, plan ahead and don't leave all your studying to the last minute :-)\n\nIf you don't have other classes to work around, here is what I would suggest:\n\nT=9:00      Wake up, get ready for the day\nT=9:30    Grab breakfast to eat while you study\nT=9:45    Study for an hour\nT=10:45   Get up, stretch, use the bathroom\nT=11:00   Study for another hour\nT=12:00   Check email, go chat with friends, and otherwise take a break.  Get some lunch.\nT=12:30   Go to a different place to study.  Try the library, or a commons room.\nT=12:45   Study a new subject for two hours (if you have more than one to work on).\nT=2:45   Get up and find somewhere new to study you haven't been to yet today.  Grab a snack on the way.\nT=3:00   Study another two hours\nT=5:00   Break!  Spend an hour or two with friends, playing a game, or basically de-stressing\nT=6:00   Eat dinner, start gearing up to study again\nT=6:45   Make your way back to somewhere comfortable to study\nT=7:00  Settle in and study as long as you can stand\nT=10:00ish Get up, check email, move around, head back to your room if you're not there already\nT=10:30ish Bring your most boring study material to bed with you.  Read it until you fall asleep.  You'll either get lots read (good) or get plenty of sleep (also good) :-)\n\nThis assumes you have a full day, but this gives you a good 11+ hours of studying, and still time to eat, talk with your friends, and generally not go crazy.  It also gives you at least 9 hours of sleep at night, which will really help!\n\nStudying in multiple places throughout the day helps keep you from getting bored (and sleepy) while you work.  Also, if always study the same subjects in the same rooms, it really helps your brain absorb the information faster (strange, but true!).  If your test involves remembering a bunch of facts (like who painted each of these pictures, when, what techniques did they use, etc), study each thing (painting, in this case) in a different room.  Then when you get to the test you can see a painting and remember "Oh, I read that one while sitting in the stairwell.  That means it was painted in X year by so-and-so."  It helps you keep the information from getting all mixed up in your head!
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My best trick when I was in college was to study one thing for 15 minutes at a time, take a 2 minute break and then start a new subject, cycling though everything till I was done.. that way my attention span didn't wear out in time for me to not grasp what I was studying and the small breaks helped get me refreshed for the next subject.\nGood luck!
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1) do multiplication problems in your head  for 10 minutes before you go to sleep.  \n\n2) Learn three new words   every  other day and spend the\n       next day trying to use them.\n\n3) Use mnemonic devices to remember lists.\n     If you have a list of several items, make a sentence where the first letter of each word corresponds to the first letter of each item in the list.  \n    Example:  the 5 senses are --hearing, smell, sight, taste, touch.   H,S,S,T,T\nYour sentence might be :  He Should Stop Telling Tales.\n4) Practice memorizing states and capitals.  Little by little and every night for a little while.  This will help your concentration\nand will keep your memory active.\nRepetition is the key.\nWhen you have all the states perfected, start on the countries of the world and the periodic chart.\nMemory is like any other skill; you have the ability, but it requires regular practice.\nGood luck!
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Set a schedule for yourself and make certain you get enough sleep! I also suggest that if you have time after class, that you immediately begin reading the material while it is fresh in your mind. Review notes BEFORE class. Also, before you go to bed at night, I suggest you write one page for every subject you had a class in that day and then compare it to your notes. If you got something wrong, then correct it. It's a great way to build memory recall. Take ONE day a week for yourself. Don't study that day, just relax and have fun. If you don't, you will have less motivation and memory recall.
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I was given tips on this. \n\n1. Do not rush. In each part you only need about 55% correct from each section to pass.\n2. Skip questions you know might take too long.\n3. In reading, reading all of the story isn't required. Look at the questions first.\n4. Work on your weak points.\n5. Sugar and sweets might cause you to think slower.\n6. Do a brain exercise in the morning. Example: When brushing your teeth, count how many strokes you take. This gets your brain working faster.\n\nWell, that's all I can really remember. Hope this helps.
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~ Do your homework right when you get home before turning on the TV or computer.\n~ Find out if your school offers an elective that teaches study skills, or see if there is a tutoring program you can join.\n~ If a teacher offers a study group for a test go for it, he/she will know exactly what you need to study and you won't be wasting time memorizing the wrong stuff.\n~ Pay attention in class and take notes.  If a teacher writes something on the board copy it down, the teacher wouldn't waste his/her time writing down something unimportant or irrelevant to the topic.\n~ Use a planner or some type of organizing book to write down homework and *check it every night*.\n~ Once the teacher tells you the scheduled date for a test start studying, even 15 minutes a night will make a difference.\n~ If possible, study with friends, this can help a lot because different people might have ideas you never would have thought of for remembering certain topics. (Just don't waste time fooling around or getting off-topic until the studying is done.)\n~ Eat a good breakfast, get lots of sleep, and participate in sports. ( The brain needs food, rest, and a stress relief.)\n~ good luck : D
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If you lose your concentration in studies, something disturb is there in your mind. So, first you can find the solution for that, fix some commitment for that. Then you start the study. Take 10Mt's.break for every 30 to 45 Mt's between studies. Listen melodies music or meditation or magazine.
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I guess you are tensed about your exams and you have a lot of portion to cover.\n\nFirst relax. \n\nThen plan.\n\nDont dedicate every waking hour of yours to study.  Fix a few hours.  Start with may be two hours and then increase the time as you gain concentration and confidence.\n\nSee where you stand with each of your subjects or papers.\n\nFor the first few days try studying something is a little easy....it helps in two ways....you will finish  studying for that particular paper and you will gain some confidence to tackle the more challenging ones.\n\nTry not to have any distractions while your studying...like TV or taking calls during the period you study.\nAsk you family members not to disturb you during the time you have fixed for studying.\nTry sticking to the same hours everyday for studying.\n\nAnd also try using the same place everyday for studying. ( Until you find a corner in your room where you feel you could concentrate better, keep trying various corners,chairs etc.,)\n\nIf you like you can try having coffee or tea to stimulate you mind. (only if you are already used to having them...sometimes drinking coffee might give you headaches)\n\nJust before you start studying, light a candle and just keep watching the movements in the flame.  Try not to think of anything else and just keep looking at it ...may be for 2 to 5 minutes.  Then blow it off and start studying.  This might help to clear you mind and ready it for studying.\n\nWhen you start to study, if you feel you are not concentrating,  start writing a few sentences you are reading...the ones you feel are important or the ones that strike to you....slowly you will start concentrating.  Also these things that you write down sometimes get imprinted in your memory.\n\nI hope these tips help you.  There is no such thing as you cannot study...keep trying and you will be able to.\n\nGood Luck
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im 16 and so far these habits have really helped me concentrate; and by concentrating you can get your work done in half the time. sit at a tidy desk. make sure the area is well-lit, and sit straight on ur chair. dont play any music etc, and try to concentrate as hard as you can without daydreaming. you should hopefully feel better about studying. :)
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Meditation.\n\nThis can be the only solution to your problem. I have solved my problem with meditation. We forget advices very easily. If you keep taking people's advice about how to concentrate on your studies you will never come to any solution. You will just think like, ok! I will do this. Most probably, the next day you will forget because EVERYBODY hates to CHANGE unless THINGS CHANGE US. Very people knows how TO CHANGE THINGS.\n\nRemember! sometime THINGS chooses US and sometime WE CHOOSE THINGS. Which is better?\n\nI dont know.\n\nTry meditaion. Meditate yourself and self-talk or give auto-suggestion to yourself repeatedly and repeatedly.\n\nFor your reference, about how to meditate. Visit:\n\nwww.tm.org\nwww.silvamethod.com\n\nand some books on meditaion.\n\n\nMeditation is DOING something for improvement and listening to advice is trying to do something for improvement. Tell me which is better. Trying or just sit and start doing?\n\nTake action now.\n\nNow! go, do it!\n\nGoodLuck!
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Basically, anything that exercises your memory skills will help to improve them.\n\nThere are also mental tricks you can do to help yourself. Find ways of associating new things you want to remember with things that are important to you, and particularly if you can find a visualization for it, or relate it to a well known rhyme or song.  If you just meet someone and want to remember their name, try to associate them with someone else you already know by that name, including celebrities, etc.\n\nAs far as physiology goes, eat right, exercise, get at least 8 hours of sleep a night, take multivitamins daily, and - oddly enough - floss daily.  The reason for the last one is that studies have linked cardiovascular health to dental health (which is cause, which is effect?  who knows), and cardio health has been linked to mental acuity.
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Study longer and harder , so you will be able to remember important things. That should improve your grades.
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studying is not too boring.close your door and just put on some music and try to study thats fun if you have concentration .and studying more than 3 hours makes your head burst!\ntoodles
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read about it every day, think about it, talk about it, draw pictures about it, and before you go to sleep, read a little about a narrow subject.\n\nReview your notes in the 10 minutes before class starts.\n\nCramming makes for memory that easily evaporates, repeated reviews go into longterm memory.\n\nThe human mind can only study profitably for about 45 minutes at a time, then you need to take a break to let what you study seep into your memory. Then write in your own words a summary of what you had just studied. Then continue to study for the same subject about 30 more minutes.