Category: Cram Session
Hello everyone, I have a problem. I can't study so well, I can't concentrate, my mind keeps on wondering, if I have to study or do an asignment. This is quite recent, and I don't know what to do about it. can anyone advise me on this? thanks in advance. bfn
YHINK of whats important focus on your goal have a mind set. please dont think of things that are not important. and if it does not work look for the problem and try to resolve it. if ya feel stressed out and tired from school take a day off or a time to relax your mind. FINALS ARE COMMING SOON. GOOD LUCK.
Has something recently gone on in your life that bothers you? Maybe you could talk to a close friend or relative or write about it. Or pray about it if your into that; ask God to help you thru this time. That usually helps me anyway. Also, you can try to write notes while you are studying so you won't have to be rereading or relistening to the same things if you don't get something. And also true_one7 is right. Take a day or a few hours off if you can, and maybe that will help too. Good luck.
Leilani
thanks for your advice. This problem of mine started at the beginning of this year. I've also had to change subjects because I failed one. Anyway thanks again. bfn.
have you solved it now?
Nottingham Trent University (where I'm doing my degree) has a progression support team, dedicated to helping students of the University sort out study related or other problems that are or could be afecting their ability to progress through their course. If this problem of yours has been going on for a while now, and there is a student support service of this kind where you are studying, it might be worth making contact with them.
IN the meantime, the Progression support service here at Nottingham Trent have a website which contains all sorts of advice and information fact sheets about issues such as time management, concentration, sleep etc. The website is http://www.ntu.ac.uk/sss/Progression_Support_Team/index.html
I hope that information will help you solve your problem in the long-term.
Or maybe just finding a study group would help. You can all help each other stay focused on the subject.
Get lots of sleep, at least eight hours a night. That's eight hours not counting any time that you spend in bed before falling asleep or after waking up in the morning. Try to get on a very regular sleep schedule, going to bed around the same time each night and setting your alarm clock for the same time each morning. If you're a morning person and you work and study better in the morning, try going to bed at seven forty-five or eight and getting up around four or five in the morning to work and study before school. If you're more of a night owl try studying late, and making sure that you have classes late enough in the afternoon that you can sleep in late in the mornings and get your full eight hours before having to go to class. Read and be sensative to your body and it's rhythms and do what works for you. Also, if you have trouble focusing, go to the computer lab, student union, or library. It can be much less distracting if you're not in your room with your computer, your phone, your cell, your TV, your sound system, pleasure reading, snacks, toys, games etc. Also hanging out in your room is much more likely to lead you to falling asleep if you study on your bed. Your friends won't be dropping in, to distract you either if you're in the library. If it is easier, listen to your text book while you study, and only write down those things which you absolutely all ready don't know, and those things such as numbers, difficult spellings or formulas which you might have trouble remembering. Then in class you can look back at your notes and only write down those things that your professor says in the lecture that you haven't all ready found in the book or that you didn't all ready know. Don't waste time writing things down word for word in class or when you study, and don't write down things that are just common sense or that you are confident that you all ready know. Try using background music when you study. Get your I Pod going or put a CD that you really like on repeat. That way you won't have to change it and won't be tempted to switch or skip tracks and thus get distracted. Don't fight your body's urges to move. If it helps you to rock gently, tap your foot, wiggle your toes or read quietly aloud while studying then do it.
Agree with all of these things. I find I also get distracted. I'm one of those people who has to study with another person firing questions at me about the subject matter until I answer them correctly. Unfortunately, I have not found anyone in my classses who's willing to look over the material and quiz me.