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Michael Hogan, psychologist at NUI Galway, says students perform better when they focus on the task rather than themselves.

"Research suggests that when people are task-focused they are happier and perform better.

"Focus on what you are doing -- drawing out your timetable, arranging your books on the desk, the flow of ideas in your history textbook, your summary notes of the historical facts, the interesting step in the mathematical equation, the clever solution to the physics problem.