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Student Advice

Stressed Out

We’ve all had the feeling, the longing to scream or quietly hide avoiding certain situations, hoping that your problems will pass. Most people will feel this in life, some more than others. Of course adults have stress but we do too!!

Teenage life is tough, sometimes it feels everyone is against you, parents and teachers. You’re gone over your project deadline, or exams are closer than you thought, things appear to be just piling on top of you, never ending. On top of school problems life at home can be stressful. Everyone has their own problems whether it’s an essay that’s due (that you’ve put off for weeks, all problems differ clearly and have a variety of consequences.

Despite what they are we have to try prevent them from stressing us to the limits. It’s only human to feel stress, too much is not good for your health. Tension is created, sleepless nights haunt you and you have those snappy moments with others.

So you’ve no nails left, your body’s drained with worry and you feel like you’ll never escape or gain relaxation. So when you hit this emergency that stress made, just remember, no problem is impossible, you can always find a solution …. When you look for it 


Manage your Stress

It may also help to manage stress. The best of us, even the most chilled person you have ever met would get stressed at times. Try not to let work pile up on you! Divide the things that have been stressing you out into things you can control in your life (homework, social life etc) into things you can’t (parents, siblings, friends). When things appear to be piling up, decide which is most important and urgent and do them and slowly do the others. If you can’t fix a problem that is stressing you out you should talk to someone, like a friend, even a teacher. Also put your little problems into perspective with other peoples 'problems, it actually works!!!

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Exam Survival GUIDE

As we all know exams are an unfortunate reality of school life whether they are class tests or the dreaded junior/leaving cert. They (teachers and parents) are all consistently telling us that if study regularly (that is after an hour or two of homework) then exams will be no problem. Who really does this?? Most of us rely on cramming in as much info the weeks leading up to the exams and cross all fingers and toes it will pass us! But the weeks leading up to an exam can be VERY stressful. If you haven’t worked all year then you can feel it’s too late. But anything is better than nothin! And every little helps.

Here are some tips for preparing for your exams SURVIVING THE LEAD UP TO THE EXAM:

 

ON THE DAY OF THE EXAM:

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