With board exams approaching, students from the city are increasingly complaining of headache, migraine, etc
Exam anxiety and pressure to cope comes in tow with the onset of all important board exams. With CBSE, SSC and ICSE exams approaching students from the city are increasingly complaining of headache, migraine, skin rash and fever. Now many city counsellors are coming forward to advise students on coping with stress and maintaining good mental health before exams. Students are increasingly approaching counsellors seeking help.
Psychiatrists advise parents to show faith in their children and children to take good sleep to nourish their brains a day before the exams.
Dr Seema Hingorany, Child Psychologist, said, "I have got a lot of physiological complaints from students rather than psychological. Students unable to handle stress or express themselves with parents nagging at all times makes them feel claustrophobic in their house. The health manifestations are both physiological as well as psychological."
Dr Harish Shetty, well-known Psychiatrists, said, "The most common complaints that I have always come across among students saying that 'I will forget in the exams what I have studied'. When anxiety increases excess, the memory goes down."
Most of the students stay awake whole night for studies and directly go to appear for the board exam. Shetty claims it to be a bad practice. " The brain has to rest for memory to sink as well as retrieve itself. A brain needs to be nourished with the sleep, play and good diet" adds Shetty.
Other psychiatrists suggest students stay away from gadgets and mobile phones that may distract them from studies. Dr Sagar Mundada, consultant psychiatrist, Healthspring, said, "Most of the times parents have a complaint that their children are always playing videos games. This is one of the reasons why their academic performance is going down."
The theory state board exams are about to begin from 21 February till 20 March for Higher Secondary Certificate and March 1 till March 22 for Secondary School Certificate students. The Maharashtra State Board has released the helpline numbers of the counsellors for the students in distress. These counsellors will be available for counselling students between 8 am till 8 pm from the date board examination will begin. The board have requested students and parents not to inquire about the board exam centre, seating arrangement or anything related to question paper to these counsellors.
FACT BOX
- The psychological counselling has also begun for CBSE students from February 1 to April 4 to help students overcome exam related anxiety. The school principals and trained counsellors will provide CBSE Tele-counselling.
- From this year CBSE has started Interactive voice response systems (IVRS) for their students for which the toll-free number is1800118004. For online counselling students can email oncounselling.cecbse@gmail.com
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