Examination Stress
How To Overcome Examination Stress?
Children and young people today confront many challenges – both personal and systemic. The dawn of the new millennium and the 21st century have brought about a host of changes in the way we transact our lives evoking both anguish and hope. It is strongly felt that while education is an ongoing process of improving knowledge and skills, it is also the primary and an exceptional means of bringing about personal development.
It is essential that all people with a sense of responsibility turn their attention to both the aims and the means of education.
The prevalent system in the country lays a strong emphasis on public examinations as an important event and milestone in a child’s life. Come February-March - the time of school public examinations, everybody gets worked up especially students and only to a very small extent the teachers and parents - as examination results are also a measure of their performance! Who amongst them manifests the examination stress the most, differs depending on a host of factors and their mental make-up. How can one overcome the examination phobia not only to face them calmly and confidently, but also come out unscathed and triumphantly is the question? Let us attempt the answer.
First of all, the appreciation needs to percolate down the system, among all stakeholders that all children are able, however differently. One needs to set realistic goals within the given structure and parameters, for both career and results of the assessment depending on one’s natural aptitude and ability. Schools and the environment at home play a very important role in this. Hypersensitivity to a particular event in our lives (in this case examinations) is neither desirable nor appropriate. Being too anxious, concerned or worried is not a suitable state of mind for tackling examinations. One needs a quiet confidence, borne out of adequate preparation to face the examinations. Undue anxiety is counter-productive.
Children and young people today confront many challenges – both personal and systemic. The dawn of the new millennium and the 21st century have brought about a host of changes in the way we transact our lives evoking both anguish and hope. It is strongly felt that while education is an ongoing process of improving knowledge and skills, it is also the primary and an exceptional means of bringing about personal development.
It is essential that all people with a sense of responsibility turn their attention to both the aims and the means of education.
The prevalent system in the country lays a strong emphasis on public examinations as an important event and milestone in a child’s life. Come February-March - the time of school public examinations, everybody gets worked up especially students and only to a very small extent the teachers and parents - as examination results are also a measure of their performance! Who amongst them manifests the examination stress the most, differs depending on a host of factors and their mental make-up. How can one overcome the examination phobia not only to face them calmly and confidently, but also come out unscathed and triumphantly is the question? Let us attempt the answer.
First of all, the appreciation needs to percolate down the system, among all stakeholders that all children are able, however differently. One needs to set realistic goals within the given structure and parameters, for both career and results of the assessment depending on one’s natural aptitude and ability. Schools and the environment at home play a very important role in this. Hypersensitivity to a particular event in our lives (in this case examinations) is neither desirable nor appropriate. Being too anxious, concerned or worried is not a suitable state of mind for tackling examinations. One needs a quiet confidence, borne out of adequate preparation to face the examinations. Undue anxiety is counter-productive.