How to reduce stress and anxiety during exams

Most people feel some stress when it comes to taking a test. Moderate levels of stress can actually improve motivation, memory, and attention, and enhance test performance. Test anxiety, however, involves stress and worry that interferes with test performance, well-being, and attitudes toward school. Symptoms of test anxiety may be physical and mental, and can include sweating, nausea, stomachache, shaking, muscle tension, nervousness, feeling overwhelmed, and the feeling of one’s mind going blank. Most treatments for test anxiety are similar to treatments for other types of anxiety, with a couple unique differences. In addition to relaxation skills and cognitive restructuring techniques, treatment for test anxiety also includes practical study tips and test-taking skills. Practical Skills Treating test anxiety begins with teaching study tips and test-taking skills. Research shows that using these skills can help students stay relaxed, focused, and motivated to do well on a test ( Study Tips Good study habits are important for students at all levels. Discuss these tips with your client and develop plans for integrating the tips into students’ current study habits. • Establish a study routine. Creating a routine–such as studying for an hour after dinner, or for a half hour each morning–will encourage consistency. When getting started, create a study schedule and set reminders on your phone to help build the habit. • Create a dedicated study area. Choose an area that is free...

Post Views: 23 Exam time is the most stressful time for everyone, whether a school student, college student, or university student. Everyone feels stressed during their exam time, but if we have prepared for the exams, we can easily handle the exam stress. Although if you have prepared for it and are still feeling stressed, then overthinking can be the main reason. Stress is tension inside our mind generally because of some situations. Those situations may be student exams, job interviews, an intern’s new work, etc. Every time we talk about exams, they wait for us with a heavy stress load on each onces head. Anxiety is some stressful feeling that stays with us after going through those situations which cause stress. Here are some tips to reduce stress and anxiety during exams. 1. Start preparing early You know that competition is everywhere, so if you start preparing for your exams earlier than it appears, then you will not feel stressed. Make plans for your exams and start doing what you have planned. Remember to continue the planned things every day. That will manage your exams and exam stress. 2. Meditation Do meditation every day for 20 minutes. Meditation helps you by removing negative thoughts and clearing your way. Doing meditation in the morning can be more beneficial than other times of the day. Meditation helps your mind to open up and reduce stress and anxiety during exams. 3. Drink more water and eat healthy food during exams Drinking water will make your mind ...

From a neurological perspective, high stress disrupts the brain’s learning circuits and diminishes memory construction, storage, and retrieval. Neuroimaging research shows us that, when stresses are high, brains do not work optimally, resulting in decreased understanding and memory. In addition, stress reduces efficient retrieval of knowledge from the memory storage networks, so when under pressure students find it harder to access information previously studied and learned. Students (and their parents) often interpret suboptimal standardized test scores as a measure of the students’ limitations in intelligence and potential. The consequence is a loss of confidence, further activating their brains’ stress response, making it more difficult for them to employ their cognitive resources and knowledge during the tests themselves. Deeper Learning Is the Best Test Prep When the goal of learning is only test preparation, students will not be prepared to apply their learning to novel questions or problems. But engaging students in authentic performance tasks and project-based learning helps deepen their understanding on both the factual and conceptual levels. In addition, when students experience their learning as personally meaningful, their intrinsic motivation strengthens long-term, durable memory networks. These are far more accessible for test retrieval (and longer term access) than rote memory. Here are some examples of personally relevant learning experiences that can help ...

The following article is written by Come exam time, having higher than usual stress levels seems to be the new norm amongst students. In fact, many students admit to feeling anxious and overwhelmed as they feel the pressure to succeed and meet their own personal expectations. This is on top of the stress of 2020 and how the school year has changed to accommodate schools, particularly in Victoria, going in and out of lockdown. The following five tips can help you get through your exams by helping put a stop to those pesky butterflies and banishing those stomping elephants from the pit of your stomach! 1. Treat yourself While it can be easy to cast all other responsibilities and your social life aside when your exams are around the corner, it’s important that you still make time for them. As Victoria comes out of lockdown, give yourself time to see your friends. Attending to other areas of your life will allow you to be your best, energised and most happy self, so that you can continue to focus on your studies, revise for your exams, and overall, excel in your final results. Make sure to set aside some personal time to do something for yourself, such as going for a walk, eating dinner with your family, or taking a relaxing bath. However you like to treat yourself for all of your hard work, make sure to find some balance and don’t wait until your exams are over to do it. 2. Think positive Often, it is the pressure we place on ourselves to get a certain grade that can contribu...

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Have you ever frozen on an exam? Found yourself unable to recall material during the exam and then recalled everything afterwards? Had trouble focusing on exam questions because of interfering thoughts? Here are 8 strategies to prevent this from happening again. Select which ones you think are most relevant for you. Maintain a healthy lifestyle • Get aerobic exercise on a regular basis. • Sleep well and eat healthily. • Continue to get adequate sleep, exercise, and healthy food during exam time. • Avoid substances that increase anxiety: caffeine, sugar, nicotine and cannabis. Get accurate information • Check out the time and location of the exam well in advance. • Know what to expect when you arrive at the exam – format of questions, what material the exam will cover, and how much it is worth etc. Study effectively • Reduce anxiety by being well prepared • Spread your studying over the whole term rather than “cramming.” Feeling that you don’t have enough time to cover everything increases anxiety. • Study in 50-minute blocks with 10-minute activity or nutrition breaks. • Learn memory enhancement techniques. • See the • Study by getting comfortable with what you will have to do in the exam: writing answers to practice questions under a time limit while sitting at a desk. Prepare to write the exam • Eliminate extraneous sources of anxiety such as how to get to the exam room by figuring that out in advance. • Think about what commonly distracts you during exams (e.g.: frequen...

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Even without the threat of COVID-19, the exam period is a stressful one for students. However, the pandemic complicated things, from several points of view. First of all, the subject study from which the exam topics will be selected has changed. Then, the second semester seems to have ended before it started, despite the fact that the school suddenly became All these rapid changes put a huge pressure on the psyche of students, especially those who graduated this year. We offer them the advice below, which should be read not only by children and young people, but also by parents and teachers. We urge the latter to be there with their children, to be empathetic and to listen to them, to give them confidence and to observe all the signs that could indicate the need for psychological help felt by the children. Talk about what worries you. It is normal to feel worried before exams, and the stress is even greater in the current situation, when you may feel scared and helpless. This is a difficult time for everyone and it can help if you talk to family and friends about how you feel and the things you do to deal with the situation. Rest. Often, you do not sleep well when you are restless or worried before the exam. A good quality sleep helps you feel better mentally and physically, so it is important to get enough sleep. • Try to see when you fall asleep the easiest and, a few nights in a row, go to bed at the same time. Avoid going to bed after 23:00, especially if you have to w...