Board Examination
Every year board exams are conducted in our country. Schools and colleges do hard nut to crack to prepare their students While educational institutions compete hard to ensure good results, they also make sure their students don’t face stress. The stress that the Board exams have started creating is a recent phenomenon. which has been created due to the highly competitive world we are heading into. Students apply different methods and tecnique. They go for many coaching classes for obtaining high marks in boards exams, according to students it is a question of life and death. This is also because the cut-off of many colleges is so high because of it many children miss their chance of studying in it and, therefore, they have to face the music. They are compelled by their parents,family and their friends to change their streams and goals. The most common problem that students face is forgetfulness while writing their papers. The different types of disorders that students complain of during exams are sleeplessness, lack of concentration and confidence, giddiness before exams and loss of memory. According to doctors many children lose their consciousness before the exams.
How to cope?
Anxiety disorders can be easily avoided if children maintain a routine before and during examination. Lack of sleep triggers anxiety disorders in most cases, said doctors. Students should avoid discussing about their performance with their friends.
“Children have the tendency to stay up nights and sleep for a few hours during exams. Parents have to ensure that children sleep early and do not skip their meals” said Dr Anand.
All these pressures affect the mental health of children as they become nervous before the exams so much, so they become even mentally blank and forget as they appear for a paper. Therefore, counselling before the board exams is very essential for better performance and health of the children. These counselling sessions give some mental support and strength to children to use their energy in a positive manner. A counsellor in the sessions does not only talk and try to de-stress the children but also guides them too long to adopt a better lifestyle. Counselling is only a way which through problemes of children can be solved. So parents should pay heed on their children and counsel them during or before the exams. Mostly children reach the snapping point if parents pressure them to study more during this period. So it is important that parents are also counselled as well.
The terror that board examinations cause to children is truly alarming. It’s killing our future, spreading unrest all over society. Yet the solution is not as simple as doing away with the exam. We need to reshape our entire philosophy of education at large and assessment systems in particular. And we need to do it before more children succumb to the unfair board examination system.
Tanuja Garwal
A student of class 11th
