Exam Stress
Exams can be extremely stressful for many students, so much in fact that many students don’t perform as well as they should do in their exams, in a lot of cases this is not because they don’t have the ability it is just through the pure stress of the event the worry of failure, knowing what to revise and in some cases not taking time out to do something else.
Many students can’t see a way out when it is exam time and take this entire burden on their own shoulders and feel there is nothing they can do to help to ease the stress of exams.
The Advice Centre is here to help, below are some exam stress busting tips for you to have a look at and hopefully help alleviate the stress a bit: -
• Talk to someone- If you are especially stressed ensure you get it off your chest, talk it through with someone you trust, people such as friends, relatives, personal tutors, the student Adviser or in some cases a counsellor, this is great way of alleviating stress and worry.
• Believe in yourself – You were offered a place on the course so if your good enough to be here then people believe you have the ability to complete the exams. If you prepare properly you should do fine.
• Don’t understand something, ask!- If you don’t understand some of the revision notes or part of your study for the exam, then talk it through with a tutor on your course or with course mates.
• Take time out- Revision of course is important but too much can have an adverse affect and increase stress levels, take time out to do something you enjoy for a day or a night, go and see friends or do something that helps you relax.
• Don’t make unrealistic goals- If you believe that anything less than top marks is a failure on your part, then you are creating yourself loads of unnecessary stress.
If you are feeling stressed and feel you would like to talk to someone about this then The Advice Centre is here for a listening ear (you might even get a cup of tea if you are lucky!).
Other people within the college you can talk to include the counselling service, Chaplaincy, the health centre or your GP if you are not a patient there.
Tel:020 7594 8067 Or E-mail: advice@imperial.ac.uk
