How to support your child during exams

This blog is based on a training that I deliver to parents in schools to help them provide exam support to their children.

As we all know the exam season is very stressful for children. However, it is especially stressful for parents! Often parents don’t know what to do and how to help and this is an extremely painful experience for them. They’re desperate to help their child and really want to see them doing well and feeling good during the exams but all too often students are going into crisis and having meltdowns. It is excruciating for parents to feel that all they can do is stand on the sidelines helplessly.

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Exam Results? Never give up! Never surrender!

“Never give up! Never surrender!”

Exam results can be challenging for everyone. It’s a massive day, with a big build up  and usually full of highs and lows. It’s often a public experience getting your grades in front of other students and teachers and it can mean the confirmation of your hard-worked for dreams or deep disappointment when a few marks appear to separate you from the future that you had planned.

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Revision and Exam Techniques used by students

These are the revision and exam tips and techniques that students have given us. This is their advice and what has worked for them:

Exam Preparation: 

“Visualising myself in the exam and imagining myself doing well and handling anything that comes up. I did this again and again and it really helped when I got in there!”

“I didn’t listen to other students when they complained about how much work they were or weren’t doing. I knew that non of that really affected me.”

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How can parents support their children during exams?

Parent support

How can parents best support their children during exams?

▪Seek to understand your child’s problems

▪Your understanding of their problems enables your child’s understanding of their problems.

▪By listening we create a ‘thinking environment’.

▪By listening you enable them to think for themselves.

▪By enabling them to think for themselves you build their confidence.

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The Hunting Cheetah Exam Technique

a cheetah ready to pounce

This technique is the complete opposite of the ‘mark a minute’ advice that students can sometimes be given. Feeling that you have to score a mark a minute usually does one thing – ramps up your fear and anxiety as soon as you get into the exam. You feel that you need to be scoring marks instantly – from the first few moments and if you are not – then you are already behind!!! Continue reading