Music can be a way to help de-stress and focus. Many students, like me, use music to help focus while doing homework and studying for upcoming tests. It can help one obtain and understand the material much better. 

Music can be helpful in many ways. According to an article on hopkinsmedicine.com: “Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.”

While studying to obtain the information you need for either an upcoming test, quiz, or anything general, background music can be helpful to achieve a good grade on whatever you are going to be taking the next day or even within the week.

Music and Studying: Do They Go Together states:  “In a 2013 study, 60 female volunteers carried out a psychological stress test while listening to relaxing music, sounds of rippling water, or no particular sound. Results suggested that listening to relaxing music makes a physical difference to the way people respond psychologically and physically — in terms of hormone response — under stress.”

I have also taken note that whenever I am doing math homework and history I need music to work with in the background. I work more efficiently with music instead of when there isn’t. There are times that I will turn my music off, mainly for reading, but there still has to be some sort of sound. I find myself having music on for studying more often than without. 

Overall, music can affect the way you study more positively than negatively.