Listening to music while studying

[banditkeith]

If it's a writing subjects (Bio, English etc.) then music is a definite no. I find that those with lyrics very easily mess up my train of thought.
At the start of the year, I usually only listen to music when doing work that involves maths/calculations.
As the year went by, I made myself stop listening to it since it would be quiet in the exam room and there won't be any music playing.

The only exception I have is when I am at school and there are too many people around me which forces me to plug the headphones in and drown everyone out. I did this with instrumentals though so that it wasn't just as distracting.

[ellecee]

If it's a writing subjects (Bio, English etc.) then music is a definite no. I find that those with lyrics very easily mess up my train of thought.

Yeah. Lyrics completely mess me up when writing essays especially when a favourite song comes on. Although classical music in the background is often quite good as long as it's not too dramatic and loud.
I have to have music on for other subjects. I like sound.
 

[ShortBlackChick]

I usually end up studying with music on because the alternative is listening to my mums annoying, loud voice crack the shits at my brother.

In that sense listening to music helped me, but it did get to a stage where I couldnt study without listening to music.

[acinod]

Study Music Project: http://www.youtube.com/user/StudyMusicProject#p/u

I actually listen to this more outside of studying because it's so beautiful

[pi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjLMrI5hZI

[MJay1993]

i listened to electro/house/dance music ~130-140 BPM and it helped me concentrate when doing light study such as further maths, but distracted me for harder subjects that need heavier thinking.

also when i did practice exams i didnt listen to music as i thought it would make sense to replicate the exam environment as much as possible (otherwise i would if they played party music during exams)

^^ Pretty much the same here. I actually find it weird to study without music, have no clue why, but it just seems 'right'. But yeah, whenever I studied, regardless of how intense the studying I had to do was, I listened to trance music all the time (~130-140 BPM). I guess the fact that the drum patterns are pretty repetitive, there's (on the whole) a lack of lyrics (but even with lyrics, they seem to put you in the 'zone') and there's a focus on melody in each track just has some kind of remedial effect I guess, not so much a distracting effect. But yeah, if you're gonna listen to any trance (if that's kinda your thing), listen to progressive, melodic or vocal trance (not 'hardstyle', if you can even call that music , would be way too much of a distraction, it's more in your face).