how to enhance concentration in study

1. Try to get full sleep.
2. Take regular exercise.
3. Study in a place with no or less distractions.
4. Avoid multi-tasking.
5. Have free mind.
6. Fixation of priorities.
7. Take short breaks in long study.
8. Have interest in your study

How to build concentration for study

Concentration on work is important in all sphere of life. Effective study is only possible if you study with full attention throwing off mind all the irrelevant thoughts which interrupt in the process of learning. Concentration means to throw off mind all unnecessary thoughts and converge all the mental capabilities on a point. Normally the rays of sun do not burn a paper, because these rays are dispersed but if the rays of sun are converged on paper with the help of lens, it burns the paper at once. Similarly converging your mental capabilities enables productive study – the power of concentration.

These are the tips to improve power of concentration. 

Try to get full sleep.

Take at least six hour rest for refreshment and relaxation of your mind. A fresh mind canconcentrate more easily.

1. Understand what concentration is: “Concentration is taking your mind off many things and putting it on one thing at a time.”
2. Decide what you want to concentrate on. In many ways, you become what you focus on — that is, you take on some of its characteristics. Have you ever noticed how couples who have been married for many years start to look like each other, or how people often come to resemble their pets, their cars, their hobbies, or their work projects?
3. Watch other people concentrating. Go see a good action movie. In the middle of it, look around at the people in the theater. What are they doing? They are absolutely still, eyes barely blinking, and their breath is slower. It would take a really major distraction to break their attention stream. These physical signs may give you a hint about ways to increase your own concentration abilities.
4. Avoid constant sensory input. Multi-tasking (trying to do more than one thing at a time), loud noises, and visual stimulation (such as from a T.V.) make concentration much more difficult, and being around them or doing them too much can put you into a habit of non-attention which can be hard to break.
5. Make it a point to put your full concentration on whatever you are doing. Don’t let anything distract you. It really helps to be in a quiet place, but you can learn to block out noise if necessary.
6. Stay calm. Deep concentration is a matter of increasing or directing your life-force or conscious, cosmic energy. The more of this kind of energy you have, the better. Scattered energy doesn’t help. It must be calm, focused energy. Learn to be calmly concentrated and be concentratedly calm.
7. Learn techniques to increase and control your energy. One such technique is Paramhansa Yogananda’s Energization Exercises. Controlling your energy is an important first step toward the ability to concentrate deeply.
8. Take breaks. Go outside and breathe deeply or take a brisk walk. Make yourself do this often and you’ll be able to return to your task recharged and ready to focus more creatively.
9. Learn to meditate. Meditation is the most powerful of all concentration enhancement techniques. Learn a few simple meditation techniques and practice them at least five minutes daily.
10. While meditating, watch your breath — don’t control it in any way, just observe. This teaches you to focus your mind on one thing at a time. As you observe your breath, it will slow down, along with your mind (this is scientifically well-documented), and you move into a dynamic, peaceful (but not sleepy) state of being. Your mind will become recharged and creatively receptive.
11. Develop an interest in the topic you're studying..If you think you're "studying", you tend to either do it as a burden (by mugging up) or pressurize yourself to complete it within the time span. Love your studies, then studies will love you back !
12. Think of it as a hobby. Like you enjoy spending time in your hobbies without having to see how much time you have spent into it, likewise studies would allow you to gain some knowledge that will provide you with some meaningful information.
13. Don't count hours. No matter how many hours you study, at the end what matters is how much you've understood and grasped from it.
14. Look, the amount of time you've been studying is of no significance if the method is not proper. Try to improve your METHOD of studying and not hours.
15. It is good to make a schedule (plan out things, such that you'd be completing this topic in this time)When you complete that topic, take a 5 minute break (and that time: either take a nap or sit quietly but don't distract your mind).
After that, start with the next day's topic.
• If you set a particular time to study (12 hours/15 hours), after that you tend to feel relaxed and your mind may get distracted to other things.
• On the other hand; if you increase your time from 12 to 15 hours, you tend to feel stressed out and sleepy. This way, you won't be able to grasp much from what you've been studying.
• Make your own notes. (This will help you remember every topic because you've understood and written it by yourself in your own sense. Therefore you'd also be able to elaborate it very well in the exam).