5 Ways To Concentrate While Reading

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1. Focusing On Things Outside of Your Control
It’s one week until you’re final exam or test, you haven’t even looked at the material that’s covered yet. Oh god, stress overload. Why oh why didn’t I start studying earlier, damn those Netflix marathons!
That’s exactly what you DON’T want to do. Instead you need to FOCUS on what you CAN DO and take back responsibility and control over the situation. You still got a week left to work with - use that week as best you can to study and stop freaking out over things that are in the past because it doesn’t help you!
2. Approaching Study as a Chore
There’s a BIG difference between HAVING or WANTING to do something.
Do you have to study? The truth of the matter is, no, you don’t have to do shit. You WANT to study. No one is forcing you to study and even if they try, you ultimately have the choice as to whether you will study or not.
When you approach studying as something you WANT to do it’s a very subtle change that has a profound impact on how well you study. Always remind yourself WHY it is you want to study.
3. Studying without Setting a Clear Goal
Do you generally hop into a car and start driving without a final destination? No, I’m guessing that doesn’t happen too often. Knowing where you want to go should be the same deal when it comes to studying.
You need to know EXACTLY where you’re going and what you’re going to accomplish during your study session. What specific lectures, chapters, or practice questions are you going to cover? And that brings us to our next point..


4. Not Utilizing Different Study Methods and Tools
Quizzing yourself and recalling answers is a great method for studying multi choice exams. Flash cards help tremendously with memorizing facts.
Actually doing problem sets before looking at solution sets helps you learn MUCH more than glancing over the solutions and nodding your head as you pretend to understand the answers.
Reach out to other students, your professor or TA for suggestions and help on how to best study the unit material. Studying doesn’t ONLY mean reading text books, highlighting things, and re-reading your notes until it hopefully gets ingrained into your brain (this method rarely worked for me).
Depending on what you’re studying for you need to figure out what the best approach to studying it is AND whether it actually works for you.
5. Copying How Other People Study
Some people are ‘geniuses’ that can read something just once and remember everything they read. If you don’t have a photographic memory then clearly this method won’t work that well for you. We all have unique strengths and weaknesses - your job is to figure out what yours lie.
How do you best learn and study? Are you more visual, auditory, or kinesthetic? Play to your advantage and experiment to figure out what works for you because at the end of the day that’s all that matters

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