Concentration is an important skill in understanding and remembering what you read. Distractions constantly interfere with trying to focus on the material at hand. How do you ignore the phone? Or your favorite television program? Or the smell of pizza being delivered next door? You ignore it by ignoring it. Which is something like saying an orange is orange. But in reality, there is no other way to get around the fact that studying is your primary concern, and everything else should be ignored, blocked out of your consciousness, or otherwise forgotten.

As one way of training your ability to focus, try the following exercise based on the old Concentration game. Each box below contains either a term or a definition, which is revealed by clicking on the box itself. The object of the game is to match each term with its definition, so as you move through the choices, try and remember where you saw the matching items. The optimum score would be six, since there are six terms and six matches. That, however, assumes you guess the placement of the first definition/term correctly. Start now, paying attention to the placement of terms and definitions and try to guess all matches in as few tries as you can.