SPECIAL REPORT: Year 12 Exam Stress

Supporting your teenager through their final school exams can be extremely daunting for parents. However, maintaining a calm household will ensure your child has the best chance of success.

To perform at their best, students will need regular and adequate sleep, a healthy diet, daily exercise and regular reassurance from parents that their success in life does not depend on their final mark. Many students will experience high levels of anxiety during this time, so it is important that their mental health is looked after as well as their physical health.

Students should do plenty of practice exams, focusing on questions they don’t understand and always getting feedback from teachers. Parents should try not to worry if they feel their child isn’t studying enough. Sometimes students need to experience the consequences of their choices as they do not have the maturity to associate effort with the outcome. Getting a bad mark will not be the end of the world, but more of an inconvenience.

SPECIAL REPORT: Year 12 Exam Stress | Pacific Lutheran College (schooltv.me)

Mrs Annie Williams, College Counsellor