Solr indexing Title and Text together - solr

I am indexing certain documents in Solr which have a Title and Text. I dont want to create a separate field called Title in the document schema and want to index the title by putting it inside the text itself in some way so that title words are given more importance while scoring.
e.g. Title : Olympics 2012, Text : In December 2012, Olympics were held in......
I want to put the Title words in the Text itself, above should have just one field called Text with Title words inside it.
e.g. Text : Olympics 2012 In December 2012, Olympics were held in......
In the above, title words will not be given any special importance. Is there a way I can accomplish this by giving title words a little extra importance than other words in Text field while indexing/scoring ?

giving title words a little extra importance than other words in Text
field while indexing/scoring
I think there is no need to copy the title field to text field to boost the title over text field. Assuming you have index both fields as full text, please consider to use edismax query, and provide the qf (Query Fields) as
qf=title^10 text
which indicates that matches in title are 10 times more significant than matches in text
The following is an example query in case it helps
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=Olympics&defType=edismax&qf=title^10.0+text

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How can I specify during the index creation that one field should receive more relevance than another field?
Example: I have documents with a title and a description field and want the content of the title field to be more important during query time.
doc1: title:"Hello, world", description:"Just a greeting"
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text field .. All important fields like category, product name, brand are copied into it.
attributes field .. All attributes are copied into this field.
I have a single search query e.g. "50 mm diameter drill"
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