music while studying ?

As most college students these days, I study while listening to music. I wanted to know if this is conducive to my learning and retention of information. I've been listening to music while studying since I started college, well I only started studying after my first year in school. But besides the fact, I feel that it helps me a lot with focusing on what I'm typing but it might not be the case. I decided to listen to music when I took my first exam for this class and scored a lower grade than on the second exam when I did not listen to music. I found a study that a woman did for her senior thesis and she found that when people take a basic spatial reasoning test without music they scored on average of 90%. When they listened to classical music they scored 10% lower and when they listened to popular music they did even worse. I still don't believe this to be entirely true. I find I get more distracted when I hear other things, like people, squeaking chairs etc.. I feel the music is less of a distraction than other people. I don't enjoy studying in a place with total silence, it just makes me get distracted more easily. What do you all think about this??

to credit the article
http://takelessons.com/blog/2012/05/listening-to-music-while-studying/

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