1) Supporting Your Child Through An Examination
Tips for Parents :
- Maintain a good relationship with your child
- Love your child unconditionally: Love your child regardless of his results; Appreciate your child for the effort he makes to study: focus on the process, not the marks; Do not compare your child’s performance with others’.
- Identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses. Do not dwell on his weaknesses. Instead, acknowledge and capitalise on his strengths.
- Have realistic expectations of and achievable goals for your child. Set goals in manageable incremental steps to enable your child to achieve them and experience success.
- Help your child to develop a structure and routine for study.
- Create a conducive environment that suits your child’s learning style/habits.
- Discipline with empathy.
- Encourage your child, especially when he is disheartened; help him to see what he can learn from his mistakes, and that failure is only a temporary setback .
- Do not stinge on your praises
- Make time to play with your child and enjoy his company
- Be alert to your child’s fears, worries and concerns: Listen to him; Help him express his feelings; Brainstorm solutions; Seek help from school or from other professionals, if necessary.
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day”. — M. Grundler
Tips for Students:-
What to do…
Before exams
Develop good study habits
- Pay attention during lessons
- Submit your homework on time
- Revise your work daily
- Ask your teacher if you don’t understand
Sleep, eat, exercise, drink plenty of water
- A healthy body makes for an alert mind
Study smart
- Know the exam format
- Prepare a study time-table, and follow it
- Make time for rest and play in between study
- If you feel too stressed talk to your teacher or your parents
During exams
Stay calm and concentrate
- Read all instructions carefully
- Read all questions before you start
- Do the easy questions first
- Write neatly
- Show all your workings for maths
- Check all your answers before passing up your paper. Catch your mistakes before your teacher catches them !
Do your best and don’t worry about the rest
After exams
Celebrate !!! You deserve it
If you’re not happy with your results
Talk to your parents
- Tell them how you feel
- Find out what mistakes you made
- Work out better ways to succeed
Be patient with yourself
- There will be another chance to do better
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! — Audrey Hepburn
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