Music while studying?

[red bull]

Is it alright to listen to music while u study? does it have a dramatic impact on your results?  at my school we are allowed to bring music to listen to so long as we dont share with our friends

[samuch]

i do it all the time
but i dont have it on loud... just enough to hear and then if im concentrating hard enough i dont even hear it anymore
so its fine i think

[kenhung123]

I can't concentrate with music. I don't know why.

[ItsSKC]

It depends on the individual really. I like a little background noise.

[m@tty]

When doing questions I think it's fine. Though when covering new material I can't concentrate, I turn it off.

[xXNovaxX]

It's not so much "I cannot concentrate"

It's more of, you do not RETAIN the stuff your reading/writing/doing because 1/2 your brain is humming along, or listening to the music.

But yeah I cannot concentrate either

[samuch]

this proves that women are better at multi tasking (ItsSKC is the exception) jkjk

nova is right but if you can learn to not pay so much attention to it like ItsSKC and myself its just some background noise

[m@tty]

It's not so much "I cannot concentrate"

But I cannot concentrate.

:2funny:

But seriously the problem is retention, I understand what I read, but by the time I get to the next line/paragraph I have forgotten it already :buck2:

[TrueTears]

I normally have quiet jpop playing while reading theory, but music is never on while doing questions.

[jay1993]

what school do u go to?.... they let you bring in MP3 players into class...awesome!!


I usually listen to slow music with either no words or the volume low enough so i cant hear the words..

[samuch]

It's not so much "I cannot concentrate"

But I cannot concentrate.

:2funny:

But seriously the problem is retention, I understand what I read, but by the time I get to the next line/paragraph I have forgotten it already :buck2:

this sometimes happens to me without the aid of music
edit: fixed shit wording

[m@tty]

It's not so much "I cannot concentrate"

But I cannot concentrate.

:2funny:

But seriously the problem is retention, I understand what I read, but by the time I get to the next line/paragraph I have forgotten it already :buck2:

i can do this without the aid of music

Women are just use to forgetting things? So it's no different when 'multitasking'

[TrueTears]

what school do u go to?.... they let you bring in MP3 players into class...awesome!!


I usually listen to slow music with either no words or the volume low enough so i cant hear the words..

LOL our methods class and physics class, half the class bought mp3's/ipods in to listen lolz

[samuch]

It's not so much "I cannot concentrate"

But I cannot concentrate.

:2funny:

But seriously the problem is retention, I understand what I read, but by the time I get to the next line/paragraph I have forgotten it already :buck2:

i can do this without the aid of music

Women are just use to forgetting things? So it's no different when 'multitasking'

:O lol but i was saying that women are better at multitasking! and how come we are used to forgetting things ??

[m@tty]

You said you can forget without music, so music doesn't affect you because you are used to forgetting. Women perceive themselves as better at 'multitasking' because they don't realise that men only complain about 'multitasking' because they don't forget normally.

This is quite sexist, everyone this is said in jest.