Should You Study With Music? | Studying Effectively for GCSE's & A-level's

hey friends and welcome back to the series and studying passively for gsa season a levels in this video i briefly want to touch on the topic of whether you should use music while studying so i won't speak about the evidence behind studying with music because there's already a really great video that does that and goes into the details which will be linked down below in the description but i will generally speak more about my experience and how i think about the situation so hopefully you can learn a few things

from that so firstly whether i decided to listen to music it really depended on memory that day sometimes i decided to work in silence especially at the library and other times i prefer to work with music usually i find myself working silence but when studying began to feel boring or i found myself getting distracted by facebook or snapchat and whatnot then i would start listening to some music and i think this brings me on to an important point overall most studies have shown that any genre music makes people slightly or significantly less productive and slower when it comes to working but i think of the situation as follows let's imagine that your work done is your productivity multiplied by the time you're producted for and let's say that listening to music makes you 20 less productive and less focused but makes studying a bit more interesting and allows you to work for 60 longer than you otherwise would have without music this would mean that you're getting 32 percent more work done or if in the case you were 40 less products have been working four times longer then you would be getting 140 more work done or in an extreme case say that you're listening to music and it makes you 50 less productive but you're working for twice as long then here you're basically breaking even so what's the exact numbers don't necessarily matter the main point here is that i think a small trade-off in your productivity by listening to music but being able to work for longer it's still worth it and you're still winning a role because you're getting more work done so whilst on many study days i didn't start out listening to music curling the day as i find myself getting more distracted and more tired then i would put on some music to get a second rush of momentum or if you want to call it that this was especially true for subjects i didn't really like i could focus on subjects like for nafsa a level for much longer because i actually enjoyed those subjects but i couldn't last more than 10 minutes on something like gcse religious studies but if i sacrificed say 40 of my attention uh and focus and put on some music and managed to focus for 60 minutes instead of maybe 10 minutes i would have focused for without music then that's going to be a huge win for

me so when i did work with music then i found that listening to music without lyrics or just without english lyrics was quite helpful i found that even when doing subjects like maths music with lyrics was too distracting as i would end up focusing too much on the words and the potential meaning of those words and actually focusing on the question or understanding the material at hand whereas listening to music and languages i didn't really understand such as eurovision songs allowed me to focus much better as i was no way on me getting distracted by lyrics since i didn't really understand them or i would even listen to soundtracks from some movies and shows generally i listen to anything without lyrics or lyrics i don't understand especially songs soundtracks or albums i had listened to many times before because they still helped me stay focused but because i had listened to that particular song or album so many times before the music was much easier to drown out than it would be with new music so the main downside in songs in languages that i understood was that when i was stuck in a difficult problem or trying to make sense of a difficult concept and was leaning back my chair trying to figure it out then rather than actually achieving diffused thinking like i mentioned earlier in my series um and coming up with this solution i would instead find myself focusing on the words and the song and what it potentially means and everything which wasn't particularly helpful for the current situation so basically lyrical music or foreign music had a huge advantage here but yeah that's

basically how i think about the situation thanks for watching and hopefully you've learned something from this video