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listening to music while doing past papers

Qiameth

I'm doing Maths Papers, would listening to music be a bad idea?

Reply 1

Blondie987

Apparently you shouldn't listen to music with lyrics but classical music would be fine :smile:

Reply 2

ByronicHero

Context-dependent memory.

I doubt it will matter very much though.

Reply 3

Qiameth

Original post by Blondie987

Apparently you shouldn't listen to music with lyrics but classical music would be fine :smile:

I heard it's ok if you can concentrate on the paper, so lyrics wouldn't matter?

Reply 4

Qiameth

Original post by ByronicHero

Context-dependent memory.

I doubt it will matter very much though.

Thanks!

Reply 5

Eternalflames

Provided you don't get distracted by the music, it should be fine :smile:

(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 6

samb1234

Original post by Qiameth

I'm doing Maths Papers, would listening to music be a bad idea?

completely down to you, personally i never do any work without listening to music but I'm used to it i guess

Reply 7

Qiameth

Original post by samb1234

completely down to you, personally i never do any work without listening to music but I'm used to it i guess

Music it is then :biggrin:

Reply 8

Shiv is Light

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I listen to Japanese music as the lyrics don't distract me or listen to white noise

Reply 9

MJlover

Original post by Qiameth

I'm doing Maths Papers, would listening to music be a bad idea?

umm I dunno, my sister says the massive flop of my LSE uni exams 2012-13 was down to listening to music whilst studying.
Its even worse as I was doing a History degree and that is a lot of writing and analysis, so you can easily confuse lyrics and music for your thought process and whatever you're reading. How do you think that would translate into maths work?

Reply 10

kc_chiefs

Just an observation. I'd say the people I know who listen to music whilst revising tend to be B/C/D students and the ones who don't tend to be more the A*/A students. Typical lyric based radio pop has to be distracting.

Reply 11

samb1234

Original post by kc_chiefs

I disagree with this on the whole, i know a lot of people (myself included) who can work perfectly fine with music on, it just comes down to personal preference

Reply 12

TheOtherSide.

Listening to lyric-less music should be fine, but remember - you won't have any distractions like this when you're actually sitting the exam, so closer to exam time, maybe you could try sitting past papers in exam conditions?

Reply 13

Student403

Actually I did exactly this during my AS levels last year for Maths and Further Maths and came out fine. So I don't think it will affect all people - no guarantees

Lyric-less songs, mind you.