Exam stress is inevitable especially when pressure flutters from all the corners. Stress can further sprout into anxiety, nourishing weariness and ripping up confidence. If you’re a student who is living in the nightmarish shadows of stress and anxiety, we’ve collected some tips to help you stay focused to face exams.
Breathe
Invest a bit of time in breathing to calm down the thrashing stress and anxiety. Gently breathe in through your nose and let out through your mouth. Breathing techniques can lessen your stress and strengthen your focus. Some of the breathing exercises that can make you feel better are abdomen breathing, equal breathing, resonant breathing, lion’s breath and alternate nostril breathing.
Early Preparation
The earlier, the better! If you’re someone who often gets punched by anxiety, you should definitely prepare weeks before the exam. Early preparation can dampen stress as well as boost one’s confidence. It helps you cover the entire syllabus, gives you sufficient time for revision and to practise previous years’ question papers.
Proper Sleep
Skipping sleep? It can only worsen your cognitive thinking by flourishing forgetfulness and bewilderment, thus watering stress and anxiety. Make sure that you sleep for 8 hours. Sleeping can magically recharge you and make you feel better.
Healthy Diet
Eating junk food, over sugary items, consumption of caffeine and even fruit juice can worsen stress and anxiety. Choose fresh fruit over fruit juice, stay hydrated, eat dry fruits and nuts to fuel your energy and mood. Don’t skip meals to save time for exam preparation. Skipping meals will only dampen your capacity to swallow chapters, thus exacerbating stress.
Take a break
Don’t overindulge and attract anxiety. Take a break to Leisurely stroll through the nearby park, sway your head to your favourite music, read a few pages of any comic or watch something hilarious. Let yourself cool down.
Ask for help
Sometimes the symptoms can dangerously lash down at you and make you feel like it’s getting out of your hands. In such extreme cases, don’t hesitate to ask for help. Talk with friends and family rather than letting anxiety haunt you. Seeing a psychologist and going to therapy can help you cope with these.
