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“I can’t study, I feel sleepy and I’m not able to concentrate at all.” This is almost every other student after just five minutes of opening their textbooks. Class 10 and 12 Board exams are here, bringing with them a mountain of stress.
From the pressure to get high marks to the expectation to do well, handling all that stress can be quite a pain.
In recent years, support for students has poured in from all sides to ease this pressure. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has also set up a helpline.
FIT reached out to the CBSE helpline for the most frequently asked questions (FAQs). We then got Sudeshna Nath, Consulting Psychologist at Delhi Public School, Vasundhara, to answer these for you.
Has it happened to you that you’re studying about transformers in Physics and the next thing you know, the entire fight scene from the movie ‘Transformers’ is playing in your head? Okay, that’s just me. But for many, concentrating while studying proves to be difficult.
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Anything that you are unable to attend to and find boring, even if it’s a movie, will make you feel sleepy. You’re just wasting your time if you get to it half-heartedly.
Say you’re very good at maths, pick it up when its not your peak study hour, and study physics at peak hour, if you find it difficult.
How many times did you watch that Batman movie, after which you remembered the dialogues by heart? More than a couple of times, I’m sure. The same applies here. You need to understand what you’re studying and revise it, don’t mug it up.
Any learning passes through three channels; sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. So, in order to remember things for long, certain methods have to be followed.
Anxiety is something which at its optimum/desired level, will help you study but if it goes beyond a certain point, it can be destructive. At that stage you need to take professional help.
Performance anxiety occurs when you’re not able to study because you’re thinking about the result, says Sudeshna Nath.
So, basically relax, eat well, sleep well and follow these tips to overcome that stress!
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Published: 16 Feb 2018,05:12 PM IST