I remember that during the initial days of my preparation for IITJEE, one of the biggest problems which I faced was that I started losing concentration after 20-25 minutes of study. At that time I was taking 5-10 minutes breaks (which often extended for a little longer) after every half an hour to regain my concentration. After a few days, I decided to calculate the actual time foe which I was studying and what I found was shocking. For every 4 hours of my study, I was spending 2 hours in taking breaks or doing something to regain my concentration. Then I realized that I was going nowhere with this 50% of efficiency. I discussed this problem with my friends and we together came up with some simple ways to stay focused for longer time which I will discuss in the following paragraphs.
When we are reading theory, we tend to lose concentration more easily than when we are solving problems. We start feeling sleepy or get bored and start looking out for weather. I believe that the main reason for this is that while we are reading theory, only our eyes are working (mind too of course). So the simplest rule is to involve more body parts in reading. Always keep a pen/pencil in your hand and keep on marking, underlining, commenting in the book or on some separate sheet of paper. After reading each paragraph, just scroll once again through it and mark the important concepts in the paragraph. This will keep your hands too at work and will help you to fight sleep. You can also try out teaching yourself by framing and speaking out the summary of each paragraph that you read.
The other very simple but very strong technique to remain focused (which I learned from my friend Shiv) is to keep watch on time. This is a very effective technique. This is helpful when you are studying theory of some chapter from some book. All you have to do is to estimate time you are going to spend on each page of the chapter. Say you are reading magnetism from H.C. Vema’s book. So 10 minutes each page is more than sufficient. Now this means 6 pages in an hour. Suppose some page takes 12 minute so now you have to complete the next page in just 8 minutes. Similarly if you completed some page in just 8 minutes then you gain 2 buffer minutes which you can spend on some later page which requires more time. In this way you keep on racing with yourself. You just need to take care while estimating time per page. It will vary with subject as well as chapters. You should neither under estimate nor over estimate it.
These techniques worked for me and my friends. I hope this will work for you too. - See more at: http://www.leadiit.com/iit-jee/article.aspx?title=Stay-Focused-For-Study-for-longer-time&&id=10#sthash.TKi5reax.dpuf
When we are reading theory, we tend to lose concentration more easily than when we are solving problems. We start feeling sleepy or get bored and start looking out for weather. I believe that the main reason for this is that while we are reading theory, only our eyes are working (mind too of course). So the simplest rule is to involve more body parts in reading. Always keep a pen/pencil in your hand and keep on marking, underlining, commenting in the book or on some separate sheet of paper. After reading each paragraph, just scroll once again through it and mark the important concepts in the paragraph. This will keep your hands too at work and will help you to fight sleep. You can also try out teaching yourself by framing and speaking out the summary of each paragraph that you read.
The other very simple but very strong technique to remain focused (which I learned from my friend Shiv) is to keep watch on time. This is a very effective technique. This is helpful when you are studying theory of some chapter from some book. All you have to do is to estimate time you are going to spend on each page of the chapter. Say you are reading magnetism from H.C. Vema’s book. So 10 minutes each page is more than sufficient. Now this means 6 pages in an hour. Suppose some page takes 12 minute so now you have to complete the next page in just 8 minutes. Similarly if you completed some page in just 8 minutes then you gain 2 buffer minutes which you can spend on some later page which requires more time. In this way you keep on racing with yourself. You just need to take care while estimating time per page. It will vary with subject as well as chapters. You should neither under estimate nor over estimate it.
These techniques worked for me and my friends. I hope this will work for you too. - See more at: http://www.leadiit.com/iit-jee/article.aspx?title=Stay-Focused-For-Study-for-longer-time&&id=10#sthash.TKi5reax.dpuf
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