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Exam Nerves

However well-prepared your GCSE or A level students are for their exams, anxiety can overwhelm them. For the susceptible few, anxiety severely affects their chances of gaining the grade deserved and it can be disempowering and distressing for teachers to see this. There are, however, several key techniques for relieving anxiety, and students should be reminded of these as often as possible in the run-up to any exam period.

Stress or just nerves?

Quell the tendency among students to refer to anxiety and nervousness in the run-up to exams as 'stress'. The negative hype about stress, in the corridors and elsewhere, can encourage any such anxieties to spiral out of control.

It can actually be positive for students to feel anxious or nervous about exams. These feelings should be relatively short-lived and are a sure sign that they are taking the exams seriously. They are tapping their potential to get the best out of themselves. Tension can also serve to channel energy into the short-term task of exam preparation.