Essay About Listening To Music On Academic Performance

How does listening to music while studying affect students’ academic performance? Many students have different ways of studying and obtaining knowledge for upcoming exams or tests. Some students prefer to study in complete isolation with complete silence while others rather have background noise such as music turned on in order to help them study. For many students, listening to music while studying helps them feel relaxed and less stressed, helps them focus more on the knowledge they are trying to obtain and overall helps with their academic performance by doing better in school. As a researcher, this question gives me interest because I would like to know why so many students use music in order to help them study and how does it affect their overall performance. As a student, I personally prefer not to listen to music while studying or doing anything related to school work because I feel as if I cannot concentrate and focus on what I am trying to study. If I listen to music while studying, my brain will just wander off and not think of the knowledge that I am trying to obtain but would rather get too focused on the music that is playing. So are there may be different genera’s of music that you should listen to that will help you stay focused and more put on the work while you are trying to study. Not only that, but I also would like to know how does music or does it at all, affect a student’s academic performance. Does listening to music while you study help you do better at school? Do you stay more focused while listening to a lecture? What I believe we need to know in order to have answers to these questions is data on students who do listen to music and if it has helped them with their overall academic performance and data o...

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... relaxed because the music comforts the mind. Which eventually leads to the type of music that makes the mind loosen up. Studies showed that listening to classical music such as Mozart’s classical music makes you smarter and being exposed to it an early age helps with your performance. As it is shown, all of this relates back to a students’ overall academic performance because relaxing the mind and being stress free, helps you stay more focused at school which means better grades, memorizing facts sufficiently for a long period of time due to music helps preform tests and exams better and lastly in general classical music frees the mind and leads to a comprehensive academic performance. Listening to music helps students in many different ways. Music makes a students’ overall performance satisfying and academically, it enhances their ability to do better in school.