It is rightly said: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Indeed, kids of today’s times do suffer a lot from Exam fear, so much that it is a Phobia.
Examinophobia can drive a person crazy at times. It can be triggered by expectations of parents and teachers, stress, and lots of anxiety over the results. And during exams time; we see all the kids grow through immense stress type situations be it bouts of anger, sudden depression mood swings and lots of anxiety and excess sweating.
It is very essential to drink plenty of water. It helps all the time but quite a bit during examination time. Dehydration is a very common cause of fatigue and can cause you to faint. Drink water as soon as you feel thirsty, but don’t wait until you’re too thirsty.
(5 ) Useful Tips to handle Exams Pressure include:
- Regular Studies develop effective study habits that work:
The students have to attend their classes regularly, finish all the assignments on time, make notes properly and be sincere and dedicated. Leave plenty of time to revise so that you don’t have to do last minute mugging. Instead of waiting for the eleventh hour, start studying as and when the academic year commences.
- Make Short & Accurate Notes:
One of the most popular anxiety-reducing techniques is to write down important information, formulas, dates, people’s names, incidents etc while studying or revising a chapter. This will be helpful for your last revision before entering the examination hall.
- Don’t get stuck; go to the next question:
If your mind goes blank and you can’t think of anything to write, go on to another question and also jot down anything that you can recall on your scratch paper to stimulate your memory and get your brain working.
- Plan your answer-paper carefully and plan your approach:
Taking a few minutes to work out how the marks are distributed for each question, how long to spend on each question, which question to start with etc is usually time well spent.
- Develop positive self-talk:
Well-known Late Author Hafiz had correctly said: “The words we speak become the house you live in.” True indeed. Avoid thinking of yourself and exams in a negative way. Instead of thinking, “I know I’m going to fail” try and think “I’ll do my best and I know I will do very well.”
Pay attention only to the exam and not to other issues. Let there be NO DISTRACTIONS. Don’t waste time worrying, doubting yourself, wondering how other people are doing, telling yourself that you should have studied more. Don’t think about what you should have done, pay attention to what you can do now. Tell yourself, “Right now, I’m going to concentrate only on the exam.”
Lastly, sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and take deep breaths. And imagine that the result day has arrived. You are checking your roll number on the website. The website is now taking you to your exam result page and the moment the site loads, you see A+ grades in all of your subjects.
Visualize yourself feeling the amazing joy of performing well in class. Automatically all the exam phobia will vanish.
