Fight the Exam Stress

Our life always offers us to take different exams -your further perspectives of study and probably your
some or other kinds of trials, where we have to provefuture professional career. Such factors as long
our competence, our well being, our determination andawaiting of the exam, some uncertainty when taking
our IQ.your exam card ( it is like sink or swim ) and tough limit
Student having to submit his philosophy term paper;of time for your preparation maximize emotional
surgeon operating for the first time, unemployed, whotension. Some foreign and native scientists, having
came for the interview to his potential employer - all ofstudied this area thoroughly have concluded that from
them have the symptoms of the exam stress.psycho hygienic position exams are undesirable and
If you are a student, there is no need for me to explainthey should be cancelled. At the same time there is
what exam stress is. Sleepless nights, troubledquite opposite point of view, stating that exams
thoughts, loss of appetite, rapid pulse, trembling hands -stimulate brain activity and increase cognitive and
these are typical manifestations of exam fear. Recentmental activity. American psychologist Sarazon
research has shown that it affects all the systems ofdetermined that those students who are afraid of
the human body: nervous, immune, cardiovascular, etc.exam can considerably improve their achievements
The scientists from Houston Medical School proved inand even outdo those who are not scared of them.
the course of their research that exam fear increasesThe only necessary thing for it - is the encouraging
the possibility of cancer.attitude of the professors - they should strengthen
Unfortunately, the negative influence of thisstudents' self-confidence. Surely, praise must prevail
phenomenon on the students' body and theirover scolding. Only then the exams are useful.
psychology is underestimated nowadays. Social pollsEvery person has own optimal level of worry and
demonstrate that students perceive the exams as aanxiety, which helps him/ her to achieve the best
"duel of questions and answers", as a "severe torture"results. You must learn how to control your stress and
as "intellectual and emotional overload". Writing termextra anxiety to graduate from the university as a
papers (e. g psychology term paper) most of themhealthy person. I hope that these small tips will be of
compare with "killing their time".practical help to you and you will forget what exam
Yes, exams are important for you as their resultsstress is in the negative meaning of the word.
influence your social status, your self -esteem, grants,