how to cope with exam stress?
Discussion for A-Level students and for those choosing their A-Level subjects.
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Re: how to cope with exam stress?
- Timetable your fixed hours (lectures/course work, travel, eating& sleeping) and your recreation time to feel more organised.
- Don't leave things till the last minute.
- Remind yourself of how you did manage some things well in the past to give yourself confidence.
- Share your feelings with friends e.g. classmates who may feel the same way.
- Vigorous exercise can burn off tension,and counterbalances the passivity of studying and relaxation e.g. walking through a park or doing simple yoga.
- Graduallyestablish sleeping patterns that can be maintained more or lessunchanged even during exams. Avoid late afternoon naps. -
Re: how to cope with exam stress?
The most important thing is to start revising now. Do not leave it til the last minute or you will be even more stressed. By revising now you'll feel a lot more confident as the exams approach. Set yourself a certain amount of time to spend revising each day e.g. 2 hours. Set a timer for 2 hours and stop it whenever you stop revising. Make sure that each day it gets down to 0, and then you'll be sure you've done the amount of revision that you planned. I'm planning to do loads of revision over Easter, so that by the time I go back to school I'll have done the main bulk of revision, meaning the last month or so before the exam can be used for doing past papers and working on any areas I get stuck on. Just realised this is so hypocritical considering I really should be revising now haha, but I'm completely freaking out too!
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Re: how to cope with exam stress?
i have started revising, but with my coursework its hard to find the time to revise, as the coursework takes a long time :/
like i had a c2 mock paper and the things i really worked on, i got right. So i know that if i keep putting in loads of time into it, I can do well...
But my Jan exams knocked my confidence
my subjects keep adding more and more coursework to do when i need to revise 