However, you may have had it as a child and never been diagnosed. Most college students report difficulties with concentration at one time or another. A large number of medical and psychiatric conditions cause problems with attention and concentration. Anxiety and depression are common conditions which cause concentration problems. A weak academic background, lack of college-level study skills, and test anxiety, among other situations, may cause these symptoms.
Accurate diagnosis is important.
Like most people, you may improve your academic performance through different kinds of self-education, tutoring and counseling. A learning disability is, theoretically, a neurological individual difference in some people which prevents them from learning the ways others do. For example, people with specific learning disabilities may find it almost impossible to develop certain skills in reading, writing or math. Intelligence and learning disabilities are two separate phenomena. People are born with them or acquire them as infants or small children.