Listening to music whilst revising...

Stewy · 21 Nov 2010 at 18:41

I listen to classical music when I'm working but can't deal with music with words.

arc@css · 21 Nov 2010 at 18:52

No, didn't work for me when I tried having music on. See what suits you, sir.

sjcf1 · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:00

Yes. Though I generally listen to soundtracks/scores while doing work. While revising, it has to be silence.

physichull · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:57

Music just distracted me, I never got anything productive done at all, it was either revising in total silence or not at all.

D D Danneh · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:12

I find my brain works much better with music - I can fly through equations and such when I'm raving away

Sukh · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:13

No, I like quiet. I start to sing/take in lyrics with music on.

chrisxuk · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:16

I don't mind instrumental music in the background. Otherwise if I can hear lyrics, they just distract me.

Trifid · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:26

Sukh said:
No, I like quiet. I start to sing/take in lyrics with music on.

Don't listen to music with vocals then, I'd personally advise against music with words in for revision anyway.

I need some background noise otherwise I start to day dream...

skippy2421 · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:39

If my revision simply consists of reading then no i wont have music as I generally can't read and listen to music simultaneously (too distracting). however if I'm doing coursework or practice questions then music actually helps.

Lightnix · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:46

skippy2421 said:
If my revision simply consists of reading then no i wont have music as I generally can't read and listen to music simultaneously (too distracting). however if I'm doing coursework or practice questions then music actually helps.

I'd agree with this - when I made my post earlier I meant practice questions and that kind of thing as that's mostly how I revise but sometimes you do need a bit of quiet to properly take some new information in. I find if I'm doing maths questions in particular, listening to some music stops me from procrastinating over doing tedious things (e.g. binomial expansions or drawing graphs).

Sukh · 21 Nov 2010 at 21:03

Trifid said:
Don't listen to music with vocals then, I'd personally advise against music with words in for revision anyway.

I need some background noise otherwise I start to day dream...

I think it depends what type of work you are doing, if its something not too taxing or complicated then I can listen to music, but I have got to the stage where I am doing quite complex calculations and just can't do it with music.