Ways to Fight the Exam Stress or Phobia

What is it that hinders your performance in the competitive entrances like NEET and JEE and what is it that keeps the majority of students at bay?

It’s the feeling of being incompetence amalgamated with anxiety, nervousness, and stress, which can be termed as “Exam Phobia”. It can be dealt into two fragments.

Ways to Fight the Exam Stress during the Study course 

1. Avoid Randomness

You must have heard of an old saying “failing to plan is planning to fail”. Your actions and schedules must be planned previously. Avoid doing things randomly, and try to develop a habit of planned work.

Just don’t keep running random; you should always plan your “To-Do-List” a day before you execute them. You may further break up your to-do-list in subsections like urgent, not urgent and important and not important as per your need, to avoid getting stuck in unnecessary work and killing your time that should have been utilized in accomplishing the necessary stuff.

2. Don’t Set Unrealistic Goals

Those who stick to the unrealistic goals are bound to get anxiety, stress and the feeling of underachievement, which further trims up their capacity to perform. You need to break up the larger long term goals into small chunks. Start accomplishing these small goals which will ultimately build up and enhance your confidence level and help you to reach there.

We hope that these tips will inspire you to revamp your way of studying. Just keep visiting the portals of Career Point as we will be serving you with more inspiring and informative articles.

3. Eat Healthily, Do Exercise and Sleep Well

With key components like healthy eating, needful exercise, and sound sleep, a healthy lifestyle will help you to live a stress-free life.

• It is said that “you are what you eat” hence, it’s important to eat healthy for the optimal well being as well as the functioning of your body and gray matter.

• Enough of swimming, walking or any other physical activity or work-out that you enjoy should be done to increase your physical vigor and fight your day to day stress.

• Balanced sleep should be taken every day to lose any stress caused during daily activities and chores. If you are having sleepless nights, then it indicates that your lifestyle is not smooth it’s disrupted and you must tune it up.

Ways to Fight the Exam Stress on the actual examination day

• Wake up early 

On the examination day, you should wake up early to avoid any rush and getting late in reaching the examination venue and losing entry into the examination hall.

• Prefer to eat light

In order to remain active during the examination period, try to eat light. It will surely help you to fight back the stress level which will get induced in your body during the examination hour.

• Stay organized

At least a day or two before the examination day don’t forget to cross-check the particulars like venue and time of the examination to avoid any confusion with the day, time or venue. Before heading towards the examination venue, make sure that you are carrying everything that you need in the examination hall such as ID Proof, Admit Card and any other item as instructed to bring.

• Balance yourself through the question paper

Try to avoid spending more time on a particular section or particular question as you might run out of time to answer other questions that could have been solved otherwise. Don’t try to attempt each question, especially where there is a provision of negative marking, as it may cause you to lose some marks which you have already scored. Review your answers and the answer sheet to check for any errors that you might have made, before submitting your answer paper.

Ultimately just stay calm and composed, it will help you maximize your capacity to perform. We hope that the tips which we have mentioned above will inspire you to revamp your lifestyle and eradicate stress out of your life. Just keep visiting the portals of Career Point as we will be serving you with more inspiring and informative articles.