Listening To Music Essay

Does listening to music help us in our studies?

Report By Tan Ze Hui Valerie of Class 2E6

Research Mentor: Ms Sarala

Abstract

Many people often think that music is not beneficial to our studying and may cause us to be distracted instead. This report is a research on whether music can be a good way to enhance people’s studying experience and improve their studies. It talks about the benefits of listening to music and why the myth that music is not beneficial is not true.

Contents

1.0 Introduction Page 3

2.0 Main Body 1

2.1 How does music help us to calm down and relieve stress?

2.2 How does music increase focus and productivity? Page 3,4

3.0 Main Body 2

3.1 Does listening to different types of music affect our studying experience?

3.2 What

What type of music do you listen to while studying? This tells us that every type of music can benefit studying even though some genres are more slow and calming while other genres are more upbeat and energetic.

5. Do you prefer to listen to music with or without lyrics while studying? This tells us that listening to music without lyrics while studying is more effective in helping people study.

6. What do you think are the benefits of listening to music while

7. What do you think are the disadvantages of listening to music while studying? This shows that music can be distracting to some people but is effective in helping majority of the people study.

8. Do you encourage people to listen to music while studying? This shows that listening to music while studying is generally approved and encouraged by the public and hence it benefits people.

5.0 Further Development

I can continue to find out how listening to music can benefit other tasks like exercising and also our health instead of just studying. I will then need to conduct surveys on a wider variety of age groups as different age groups are more akin to do different tasks. Lastly, besides finding out the benefits listening to music, I can research on how music affects us emotionally and mentally in general and what should be done to make sure music give off the wrong message to young people.

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