With NAPLAN moving to March and Year 11 and 12 students already in the throes of multiple assessments, exams are looming for many households with school-aged children.
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With NAPLAN moving to March and Year 11 and 12 students already in the throes of multiple assessments, exams are looming for many households with school-aged children.
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Parents can support their children through the coming weeks of year 12 exams by using four strategies.
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In India’s brutally competitive testing culture, students focus on exam prep for years. But the pandemic had other plans for them.
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Support them but make sure to respect their autonomy; encourage them to exercise, sleep and connect with friends. These are some ways to help your Year 12 child during the pre-exam period.
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In our efforts to support young people, we might be teaching them to be afraid rather than encouraging them to see exams as a positive challenge.
It's all about perspective.
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Nineteen students have taken their own lives in the Indian state of Telangana since mid-April, after the release of intermediate examination results, officials say.
How can we stop this? No exam result is worth this price. Talk with you children about exams and that they are not as important as some people pretend that they are.
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Researchers are using lessons from sports science to help students be at peak condition for the VCE.
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Parents can help their children get through this high-stakes period with their mental health intact.
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Michael Jones, All Black great and dedicated dad, shares his top tips on how he talks to his kids about NCEA. For more info and advice, visit http://bit.ly/2iB4lKt
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OPINION: You couldn't pay me to be a teenager again.
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Clinical psychologist Amy Wilson-Hughes shares some advice for parents and whānau to help their teens deal with the stress of exams.
I spend my days working with teenagers, and I know that term four can be rough. Heck, they’re teenagers – every day is rough. But exams add unique pressures all o
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Talking to their children about study and preparation in the lead up to NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations is one of the ways parents can assist their child to do well, says the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
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Educational neuroscientist Dr Jared Horvath from the University of Melbourne shares his Year 12 study tips for students and parents.
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There are ways to manage exam anxiety so that it doesn’t hugely impact your performance.
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Anxiety and other mental health issues are increasingly taking a toll on Australian students completing their Year 12 exams this year, experts say.
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The HSC is a stressful experience and it is normal to experience some anxiety. However, for some children, high levels of anxiety can affect their exam performance.
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At 12:30 pm on Thursday, 70,000 pens dropped on tables around NSW.
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Examinations are stressful, and can be extremely challenging – this is undeniable. I always found that the most hair-raising part of the examination season was the space of time following the exam when everyone gathered in the common room and compared their answers.
Now this post-exam interrogation is carried out at a national level through Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media. Thousands of students converge on the internet and compare their answers, discuss how hard they found the exam and despair in union about how they’re definitely not getting into University.
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Browse Exam guide news, research and analysis from The Conversation
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Levels of exam angst will be steadily rising for many students. Their ordeal by exam paper is about to begin.
It's also the time when many families will be thinking about some last-minute assistance. They will be searching for the emergency breakdown service of the education world, the private tutor.
Tutoring is one of the great invisible forces in the education sector. It's difficult to measure its impact because it operates outside the formal, state-regulated education system.