Tips How to Overcome Exam Stress
Dr. EVA J. HOFFMAN PhD

• take a soluble tablet of calcium or vitamin C.
• imagine that this tablet symbolises your stress.
• take a pen and write on the tablet a big letter S.
• fill a glass jug with water and drop the tablet into the jug.

Sit comfortably and breathe deeply,
watching the tablet slowly disappear...
Imagine it is your stress dissolving...
There may be a little of it left at
the bottom of the jug but it won't
make much difference to the solution.

Here is what DOES NOT HELP:
negative self-programming: saying over and over again.

I am so stressed It's all too much for me.
I hate exams, they make me so nervous!

• too little sleep.
• lack of exercise (at least some...) and fresh air (oxygen!!!).
• inadequate preparation.
• getting stressed over grades!

Here is what DOES HELP:
focusing on positive self-programming.

• getting enough sleep.
• some exercise and plenty of fresh air.
• adequate preparation.
• LETTING GO OF THE RESULT!
  
  Every time you think or are about to say
  something about stress and exams,
  say to yourself: delete! delete! delete!
  and clear your mind of unhelpful thoughts.

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