This document provides tips on improving concentration and memory. It defines concentration as focusing mental efforts on a task and avoiding distractions. Memory is the ability to remember information, experiences, and people. Concentration and memory are closely related, as good concentration enhances memory. The document recommends determining your concentration span by timing how long you can focus before your mind wanders. It also gives tips to increase concentration span such as sticking to a study schedule, studying in a quiet place, taking breaks to do a different activity, avoiding daydreaming, and not mixing work and play.

1. Concentratio
n tips

2. What is concentration?
∙To concentrate Is to
direct your mental power
or your efforts towards a
particular activity,subject
or problem.

3. What is
memory
?
MEMORY IS THE
ABILITY TO
REMEMBER
INFORMATION,EXPER
IENCES AND PEOPLE.

4. Relation
between
concentration
and memory
:-
Concentration and memory work
hand-in-hand.
We generally practice only skills
that improve our memory but
never look at factors that enhance
concentration.
Good concentration will inhance
memory.

5. Introduction
∙The art or practice of concentration is to eliminate
distraction and focus on the task on hand.
∙Do you find that you read through material suddenly
discover that you have no idea about what you have
just read.
∙Or if you atted lectures and have difficulty paying
attention to what is being said.

6. ∙Does your mind flit from one thing to another?
∙Do you have trouble focusing on something for more than
a few minutes?
∙Now, if you went to the gym & tried to lift weights only to
find that your arms & legs are weak & flabby…Then what
do you do?
∙You would start exercises to strengthen your muscles,
right?
∙Similarly, your mind is a kind of a muscle too!!
∙Just like the muscles in your body, your brain too needs

7. Determining your concentrationspan
∙Go to your study area and get settled.
∙Read a large section of the text book belonging to your
least favourite subject.
∙Note the time you startMake an effort to LEARN &
RECALL the information you read
∙Note the time at which you find your mind beginning to
wander, no matter how little.
∙This will be your maximum CONCENTRATION SPAN

8. ∙You will obeserve that your concentration
span varies depending on the subject, how
you feel, your mood, the amount of rest that
you have taken as well as your eating habits.
∙The study beyond your concentration span
is ineffective.
∙You may be still reading but your brain will
be losing most of the information it takes in.

9. Ways to increase concentration
∙Stick to a routine & study scheduleStudy in a
quiet environment.
∙For a study break, do something different from
what you've been doing (e.g., walk around if
you've been sitting) and in a different area.
∙Avoid daydreaming by asking yourself
questions about the material as you have.
∙Don't try to mix work and play.

10. Ways to increase concentration
∙Before lectures, look over the notes of the
previous lecture and read the course material
pertaining to the lecture so that you can anticipate
the main ideas that the teacher will cover.
∙Show outward interest during lectures (attentive
expression and posture) to self-motivate internal
interest.
∙Resist distractions by sitting in front of the room
away from disruptive classmates and by focusing
on the teacher by listening intently and note
taking.

11. Conclusion
∙These are very simple and easy methods
& should be practiced very religiously.
∙It will become a habit in the course of time.
∙This will definitely help you concentrate
better