any tips for concentration???
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"Eating a good breakfast helps concentration, particularly in the morning when you need it most. Keep your blood-sugar balanced with complex carbohydrates such as fresh fruit, whole-grain cereal and skimmed milk. Remember the brain also needs protein, vitamins and minerals. These are essential for keeping you alert." \n\nVisit the site to read the rest of the article...
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Are you interested?\n\nIf you can answer this question honestly, then you will get the answer to your question.  Concentration is directly related to interest, if you are interested in doing something you concentrate else you are distracted.\n\nEven then try doing these things if possible:\nWhenever you feel your concentration wavering, get up from your studies move away for approx. 5 mins and come back.  In between don't go and watch TV.\nFeel your eyes are drooping, splash cold water on them a few times but don't wipe immediately.\nDon't study at a stretch, never good, you will not be able to retain anything.\nAlways have a settled time and place if possible, coz "Practice Makes Perfect".  Your mind and body need to get used to routine, and then it will be almost automatic.  You won't need to get up to study, it will happen automatically.\n\nLast but not the least, don't try doing everything now at the last moment, prioritise your workload and then do it.\n\nFor your future do pranayam and dhyana, they will really help you. Trust me.
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Try taking Vitamin B-1.  It will help you to concentrate.  About 100mg a day should do it.
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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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pull allnighters, take lots of caffeine, kill the tv and computer and phone, and most importantly take aderol or some equivalent anti-ADD (attention deficit disorder) prescription drug ---this stuff makes ur brain a sponge. oh and don't forget to use study guides and your notes/textbook.
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try to restart after taking a break for 5 min after you study say 3 pgs. or try group study with a studious friend of urs. it works 4 quite a lot ppl
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Set aside a certain amount of time each day to review the material from class.  Re-read and highlight your own notes for main ideas and major details.  If you don't have notes, but you have a textbook, you can skim each chapter and take brief notes now.  Some people work well in study groups where others can explain concepts that you may not understand, but some people can't focus that way.  Learn what is best for you by trying a variety of strategies--with or without music/people/etc.  It also depends what you're studying, but having someone quiz you out loud can help if you need to learn vocabulary.  Good luck!
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Well I am not exactly the best one to answer this one, because trust me I got my final exams from the 18th of this month and here I am answering questions on preventing procrastinating. LOL!! But here's my advice. Go ahead, select someone else !\nTake the task, break it out in small parts and allocate specific times for that. Allow times for your meals and some kind of entertainment. Once that is done, be very particular to follow that rigorously. I mean when u allocate 10 mins for music, stop it after 10 mins dun go beyond that. I know it is difficult and we lose track of time when we love something. But atleast for the time period u have to follow it. There is no-one or one thing which can motivate urself, but urself. You have maintain the balance. Its very important. \nBest of luck to you, and i expect best of luck from you to me as well.\nLOL !!
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Keep a little notepad & pen with you, & every time something pops into your head; write it down.\nBegin setting a fixed time, daily, when you do thiese lttle things. This will discipline you to manage your time better while developing some organizational skills, too.
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Well...best way to get better doing something is practice...but short of that, here are some tips.\nWhen you study, try and give yourself little breaks. Work for 15 min., do something else for 7. Repeat.\nMemorizing...think of something it relates to.\nWhen you need to remember something, think back to seomthing that happened in real life that relates/is similar.
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smile. Im with you on this one. My mind is slowing down. I always thought I was fine. Never got depressed like my other friends but yes, the minds slowing down. Is concentration a huge prob as well?....the best thing I do is eat lots of fresh foods everyday, keep up your daily vitamin intake as well. Water is very underated and should be drunk in masses! There is a herbal drug out there called H2JK (or something like that - someone help us here) but it helps with the memory. Admittingly im very smart witted, its just Im starting to forget things....best of luck and lets see how you go :-)
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Here are some tips that work best for me.  Hopefully they will work for you too.\n\nIf you have one exam to study, divide the work up into small "chunks".  This will improve your chance of remembering the information.  Study for only about an hour at a time.  Often times if you study past an hour, the information will be a big blur and difficult to comprehend and remember.  You may always study more, but give yourself a break.\n\nIf you have more than one exam, follow the tips above.  Just make sure you are studing all of the subject areas everyday.\n\nHope that helps,\n\nAlex
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hey try out these....\n1. try to study alone(no combine study)\n2. think of ur objective all the time.( what grades u want to        \n   achieve etc)\n3. avoid all other distractions (including ur friends,party                \n   etc.)\n4. if u really like the subject u r studying, concentration   \n   will come automatic (u will bw in a zone). SO TRY TO                  \n   ENJOY UR STUDY RATHER THAN LOOKING AT IT AS A HURDLE)\n5. still if u have problems with concentrating, well then..\n   \n6. good luck :)
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oh yeah, been there and done that! The best thing you can do is to eliminate those distractions:\n\n1. Turn your computer OFF (unless your typing on it, then that work, in that case, don't turn the internet on)\n\n2. Music is fine but maybe you could switch to some calm and relaxing tunes (because if you play music you really like you will just end up bopping to that instead, I know I do so it's best lay of the music that makes you want to dance!). \n\nTry to make your approach to work more interesting, I don't know how you approach coursework but I know from my experience I found it easier to make a 'plan' of what I am going to include in my assignment (use colour pens to make it more vibrant and interesting to look at). Bullet point the things you want to include under different sub-headings, make a list of your sources you have used for your coursework, make a list of the sequence you in which you will raise the different points. \n\nDo this 'plan' on plain white paper with the different colour pens, it will keep you AWAY from your PC and it's a good starting point before you drive straight in and attempt to write your work from cold. \n\nWhen you have done this, you can then sit down and write your coursework up in its proper format, so you will then feel like you have been more constructive as you are pulling all the different elements of your plan together to conclude your work. This will then make it less monotonous.\n\nNow I hope this makes sense! I also have a limited concentration capacity and I really found the above approach helped!\n\nGood luck!
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Well what helped me when I was in college was I high-lighted the important parts of the text. That did wonders for me and I also took notes as well so I could do some cross refrencing between the two. \n\nAs far as reading, I encourage you do focus on it as much as you can. Be it everyday or everyother day, have it be apart of your schedule on a regular basis. That's important. GOOD LUCK TO YOU.\n\nI was the type were I could not stay at home and study, so I went to the local library and rented a study room for a few hours. It was helpful.
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Think about it differently.  Before you go the drug route or anything like that, sit at your desk for 15 minutes or however long you can, and study a chapter, an equation, a definition...whatever it is.  Then, instead of just walking away and zoning out for a bit, take your book or notes, and sit down at your kitchen table.  Study another chapter, equation, question or definition there for awhile.  Then, head out front to your front porch, or back yard, and continue to do it.  \n\nI'm the same way, but I found that doing that not only takes out the monotony of studying, but when it comes time to take the test or give the presentation, I associate certain parts of what I studied with where I was studying it.  Maybe, I remember looking at a particular tree while I was trying to memorize a set of words or somethnig, you know what I mean?  It kind of triggers the memory and helps me out a bit.
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mental concentration to perform well