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Dear Teentalker, Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concerns and apologies for the delayed response as there were technical errors that needed to be sorted out. It sounds like you've done well in academics for most part of your life and aspire to pursue a career in the medical field, but there are a few challenges that you appear to be facing as far preparing for exams is concerned. As teenagers going through the phase of adapting to change, there are several challenges you’re likely to encounter such as: 1.Longer hours of hard work as compared to before.....

Dear Teentalker, Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concerns and apologies for the delayed response as there were technical errors that needed to be sorted out. It sounds like you've done well in academics for most part of your life and aspire to pursue a career in the medical field, but there are a few challenges that you appear to be facing as far preparing for exams is concerned. As teenagers going through the phase of adapting to change, there are several challenges you’re likely to encounter such as: 1.Longer hours of hard work as compared to before 2.Emphasis on practicing and preparing for tests and entrance exams This stage can seem difficult or rather stressful, at times, but it doesn’t always have to be that way. Overthinking is a reaction you experience to feeling stressed and anxiety could be experienced as a result. Anxiety refers to a feeling of worry or nervousness which many students often tend to experience. Many students typically experience test taking related anxiety due to the following reasons: 1.Focusing too much on the results/outcome 2.Focusing too much on how other classmates and friends are doing 3.Past experiences of blanking out or performing badly on exams 4. Negative self-talk ( for example, saying negative things like “ I never do well, no matter how much I study, so why study at all”).   Tips to manage the anxiety and increase self-confidence: 1.Change negative self-talk (for example, “I hate Maths, I never do well in a Math exam anyway, so what’s the point of studying” to positive Self-Talk (for example, Maths may not be my favorite subject, but if I practice and ask questions, I’ll be okay.”) 2. Come up with a list of 10 accomplishments big or small and keep it somewhere safe and handy. Read through it at least once a day this week and smile as you do. 3.Stop procrastination (that is continuously postponing important tasks for another time; baad mein karenge); instead break down big or difficult tasks to make tasks smaller, more manageable ones. 4.Identify what questions do you have? What information is needed? Whom to ask?   Hope this helps, if you have any other query do connect online for chat between 11am-8pm or drop us an offline message.

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