How do you study effectively.? Do you think music can help you absorb informations effectively?

I have the same habit as you and I will continue to do the same for my future CPA & MBA. but overall, it is very individual basis...

WELL SOME PEOPLE NEED THAT BACKGROUND NOISE BUT PERSONALLY I THINK IT IS JUST A DISTRACTION. JUST TRY IT BOTH WAYS AND KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN TO NEW WAYS.

Its a proven fact that you study better in the evening, before u go to bed, because while u sleep, the brain replays that information over and over again (being the last thing that "entered"your brain). Another strange yet proven fact is the idee of recording your courses and playing them in your headphones while you sleep. DONT LAUGH! Your subconstience captures those sound and you wake up at the exam writting things you didn'd know you knew. THESE 2 LEARNING STRATEGIES HAVE BEEN PROVEN BY EXPERIMENTS TAKEN ON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

if you listen to music when you study math that is really good. music stimulates the right side of the brain whichis used for mathematics

thats the only way i can study, i love music, its my life. it makes me comfortable and makes studying fun. if your doin good with it, keep goin! have fun

Not that bad? There is no such a word as weneva, the words you missed while blasting your music are "when ever". Music interferes with concentration. I'm a straight A student in college (working on my Master's degree right now) and never listen to music when I'm trying to study.

Music can help, providing it isn't distracting. The key is to keep you in a productive mood, rather than the "awww, come on I don't want to do this. I'm bored..." that is absolutely counter productive. If music keeps you happy, and keeps you plodding away at problems or definitions or whatever, then it's good. If you are dancing to it, or even just listening to it rather than concentrating on making sure you know what you need to know, then it's bad. Television on the other hand, is completely distracting because it in most cases requires a majority of your attention span.

listen with a medium volume coz if u listen to a low..the tendency is that your hear will keep on exerting effort to hear the song..on a high vol...uknow...........................

There was a study that multitasking brings your iq down. However, my boyfriend can't study without music, I on the otherhand, need complete silence. Some say that listening to music isn't good for studying because it uses up too much working memory (it's within the store model theory of memory). It is thought that the central executive (in the working memory, and basically decides what attention/memory strategies should be put to use on certain information, and which information should have those strategies applied, and which are irrelevent), if you overload the working memory, you will not get as much taken in to be put in the long term memory. On the other hand, I think there has been another study where eating a certain food (i.e. chocolate), while studying can help improve memory by eating chocolate before the test as well. Most likely because your brain correlates the chocolate with the info you've studied. Perhaps the same can go for music and you can use it to your advantage. In the end it is whatever works best for you because everyone learns and studies in their own unique way.