My DD is taking AS levels and has been very stressed and nervous, to the extent that she has not been able to stop her hands shaking during the exams. She gets very tearful and worried prior to exams and has been revising for hours every evening.
I encourage her to take breaks, provide her with food and drinks and test her, when she asks. I have tried to get over to her that these exams are not life and death and that she will do well and if she doesn't , it's not the end of the world if she doesn't.
One of her friends was prescribed tablets for exam nerves, so she is obviously not the only one feeling this bad. The trouble is that as she wants to go to Uni, exams are going to a regular event in the summer and I would like to help her find some coping strategies.
Anyone found anything that helps their teenager? I never really worried about exams. I did well at school, but it was in the 70s-80s, when expectations for girls were so much lower and most of us were expected to start a family and not go on to higher education.
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walkthedales · 20/05/2015 11:53
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