Exam Stress! ><

So,

I'm currently in the process of sitting for exams. Yes, I'm sitting for exams and am still here on PC. ><
My grades have improved a lot from the first half of the year, when I was near the bottom of the class, now my results are one of, if not the top in my class, I believe. While I'm immensely happy that hard work has brought me this far it also brought along a whole new friend - stress. When your results are good, you want better results. When you get results below what you normally get, you freak out. I'm very stressed right now, because my results has never been so good and I don't want to screw it up when the bulk of my grade depends on just one paper for each subject. How do you guys deal or how have you guys dealt with exam stress? For me, it's not just simple as "results aren't everything" , which is true or "don't sweat it". I'm really afraid of failure, it's really getting into my head. Still, I'd love to hear from you guys. :)

Get off PC.

Practice and review to destress. Yes, to destress. It's like rehearsing for a concert, the more you do it, the less uncertainty there is, and everybody knows there's no fear like the fear of the unknown. Keep revising until things become known to you like your friends or a good book - these things wouldn't stress you, would they?

To a certain extent it's just doing what you're supposed to do with no regard of the consequences - if you do it (study) well, then your consequences will be well regardless of what you think they will be or how certain you are. So basically focus more on your studying than the stress, in other words, "don't sweat it". You can boil any advice people give you down to that.

And do get off PC. I would not be so reassured with my applications at the moment if I was on PC all the time. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Best of luck.

Kanzler;bt99899 said:

Get off PC.

Practice and review to destress. Yes, to destress. It's like rehearsing for a concert, the more you do it, the less uncertainty there is, and everybody knows there's no fear like the fear of the unknown. Keep revising until things become known to you like your friends or a good book - these things wouldn't stress you, would they?

To a certain extent it's just doing what you're supposed to do with no regard of the consequences - if you do it (study) well, then your consequences will be well regardless of what you think they will be or how certain you are. So basically focus more on your studying than the stress, in other words, "don't sweat it". You can boil any advice people give you down to that.

And do get off PC. I would not be so reassured with my applications at the moment if I was on PC all the time. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Best of luck.

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Thanks for the advice. :)

Yeah, I think I need to learn how to cool off a bit, and to just have confidence in what I am doing and have done that it'll tide me through this period. Getting off PC completely wouldn't help though - it's my place for relaxation after a hard day's work, but a good alternative for myself would be to come on here less during the exam periods which is now till the next week or so.

My pair is correct. If you don't want to stress yourself out with exams, getting off the PC (albeit the INTERNET IN GENERAL) is the best way to go. In my case it doesn't help a bit when 95% of the class content is online-based and I have to use the internet to work on them, and when I have PC and other distractions bookmarked, it shuts down productivity, ya know what I mean? So I use IE to do my work. lol.

Usually I give myself 75% of my day to studying and the other 25% on anything else, such as relaxation. I understand PC is a great hub to get away from everything such as homework, but the time goes a lot faster and exam day will itch closer than you think. One professor told me: "Due dates are closer than they appear. Get to work now."

Yeah, definitely. You never notice that the deadline is up only until a few hours or days before you're due to submit something or sit for a test, or anything of that sort.

My exams are over now, but I'll still keep this in mind for the next exam, and use a different browser. It's really tempting to just click on PC and say you'll go there and check your notifications for 5 minutes. It never works. xD

Thanks for the advice! ^^