Breeze through your exams... contd.

Coping with stress:
* Identify stressful situations and develop strategies to overcome it.
* Encourage yourself; do not look for encouragement from outside. Say to yourself 'I can recall all
that i read', 'i will do very well in the exams' and 'i can score a high marks.'
* Utilise study time to study and avoid unnecessary conflicts with parents.
* Do not think of study as drudgery or be tense, enjoy the preparation process and challenges of
taking the exam.


Useful techniques:
* Preparation: Read and understand, memorise, recall by writing a self-test after 24 hours, read
the missing points and then revise repeatedly.
* Mood: Do not wait to get into a mood to study, build it up by focussing on how much you want
to score and how much you need to study.
* Confidence: Have an objective way of developing confidence.
* Sleep: Very important to sleep well to feel fresh to study and to write the exams.
* Memory: Do not check your memory by arbitrarily recalling some answer. With model tests,
class tests and revisions it is unlikely you will forget everything.