Don’t Stress and Do Your Best

Parents expect a lot from their children and therefore they pressurize them to perform well in exams. However, keeping high expectations and pressurizing children during exams can cause exam stress in them.

It is natural for children who are preparing for exams, to be under pressure. This pressure gets translated into bouts of anxiety that leads to nervousness which works in combination and is commonly referred as exam stress.

A certain amount of stress is rather considered to be effective and beneficial, as it leads to alertness and careful behavior in terms of revision of overlooked chapters before the exams. It thus helps children in adequate preparations but when it spirals out of control, it can have disastrous effects on them. It might lead to poor performance.

In order to determine whether the exam stress is beneficial or not or whether stress has reached dangerous proportions in your child, it is advisable to ponder on the causes of stress in children. This will help you take careful and timely decisions.

This is by far the most common and relative reason that causes exam pressure in children. If your child is underprepared, he or she will obviously be unsure about his or her performance. If any part of the study material is left uncovered, feelings of anxiety is natural. Further, last minute studying also enhances this anxiety factor. Children who do not follow a proper diet schedule and do not have enough sleep also feel stressed out during their exams.

There is a belief that grows in the minds of the children that they are required to perform well consistently in order to be judged as a good student. This is something that is imbibed in the kid since their early childhood. So as the child grows up and prepares for the exams, they remain under a constant pressure that he needs to maintain his grades and be at his very best at all the exams.

In such cases it is important for school teachers or mentors to manage the stress of the students.Communication is the single most important thing that mentors can do for their students. Creating an open channel is very important; so that the students come for support, advice and counsel.Teachers must also teach every student the mantra of time management.