{"id":5991,"date":"2024-02-02T16:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinecounselling4u.com\/blog\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2024-02-02T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:02:05","slug":"pre-board-exam-stress-in-children-6-best-ways-to-tackle-the-examination-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinecounselling4u.com\/blog\/pre-board-exam-stress-in-children-6-best-ways-to-tackle-the-examination-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Board Exam Stress In Children: 6 Best Ways to tackle the examination stress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“A piece of paper cannot determine my future”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nitish, a 10th-grade bright student, looked anxious all the time since the date of the board exams was declared. He burned the midnight oil to mug up well all his lessons and left no stone unturned to score well. His school too was preparing them well with daily short tests, weekly tests, and timely preboard exams. Well, all this is a part of the curriculum nowadays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even parents make sure that their children score well. And who doesn’t want to see their child standing on the merit list? Well, Nitish’s stress<\/a> took a new turn and he started experiencing, stomach issues, body aches, and mild to severe bouts of headache. He looked pale and sick. His parents were worried about his condition. The deteriorating scores added to the woes, and his teachers went on reprimanding him about his deteriorating scores in every PTM (parent-teacher meeting). He was directed to the school counsellor<\/a> by his teachers, where he was assessed and diagnosed with pre-examination stress!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was put on counselling sessions and CBT<\/a>, for a brief time and was given a set of exercises to get over the examination stress. Gradually, his condition improved and he started scoring well. This story sounds so similar, isn’t it? Our children too might have experienced this, but have you ever given it a serious thought, and taken help from a counsellor a child psychologist<\/a>, or a school counsellor? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s high time we think over this and take timely action as examination stress especially the board examination stress puts the students under a lot of stress and there are far more damaging effects of it, just beyond losing scores. It impacts their physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being adversely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This examination of stress affects their confidence, concentration, thinking ability, creativity, cognition, performance and health. The pre-board exams period is so intense that students of all categories, whether bright, mediocre or not-so-good, bear the brunt of it. The stress is equally grappling for all, and it increases with the mounting pressure to perform well. The fear of failure, or not making a good score is so high, take some students find it easier to commit suicide than to face failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just after one of two exams, we come across news on various mediums, how a student committed suicide by jumping off a building or by any other means as the exam didn’t go well! Isn’t this a serious scenario? Time and time again, there have been various reforms brought in by the educationists in the curriculum to make scoring easy and to reduce the pressure of scoring, yet these cases are still on the rise. All this is just because of the surmounting examination pressure or say the board examination pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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