exams: revision and stress

Remember that a certain amount of exam stress, while being unpleasant, is normal. If you need help with revision or with exam stress, you might try some of the following websites.

However, if you need more help than they can offer, please see your Guidance Teacher or your subject teacher for assistance.

Good luck!


Keeping your Head	a Radio 1 website on exam stress
revision and study skills	a very helpful website from the BBC
Exam stress	Helpful factsheets from Childline (plus help and information about lost of other things!)
learn.co.uk	One of the largest learning resources on the web. Use it for homework, revision, or preparing lessons. It includes an interactive easy-to-use calendar for planning your revision. You can enter your exams, study sessions, tests and breaks - and they'll e-mail you reminders. Sounds great!!
Coping with Exam Stress	some helpful tips from the International Stress Management Association
Relaxation techniques	part of the BBC website
Revision techniques	How should you be revising? The 6 million dollar question, second only to "What should you be revising?" and "Why do all this revising?!"
Exams, Stress and You!	some good tips from the counsellor at Macquarie University, Australia
Exam revision	Freeserve's exam revision study centre. Good revision tips section with some interesting quizzes to help with your learning. You should also get your parents to read the TIPS FOR PARENTS section. Unfortunately the website keep referring only to English exams!
Study Skills Counselling	Website FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS by Eileen Tracy, a Study Skills Counsellor in London, who is seeking to spread awareness of emotional issues which help or hinder students' ability to learn.