 Welcome viewer to the video dealing with examination anxiety. Let me give you my introduction. I am Prof. N. Kachada, former Prof. Head, Psychology Department of the University of Delhi, and at present, Working Edge, Head, Bureau of Psychology, Chinakya IES Cadby. Today I will be talking with you what are the symptoms, physical or psychological, through which you can identify that one is undergoing examination anxiety, and then to prepare yourself before going to the class, and also during the class to manage or reduce your examination anxiety to be more effective in handling the questions in the examination. A few days before exams, the level of examination anxiety increases as you sit in the examination hall. First of all, you have to understand that it is very important for us to understand that what is examination anxiety and what are the symptoms. I do not have it, this is the issue. And mostly it is seen that the children who have a lot of examination anxiety, if they are asked, then they have a tendency, a very strong tendency of denial. No, I do not have it, I do not care. The stronger they are, the more pressure they will tell you that I do not have examination anxiety. This does not mean that they do not have it, they actually have it. But they deny it. Denial is a very very common phenomenon. Let us not deny it. If we have examination anxiety, it is a natural process. It happens to many people, but that doesn't mean we deny it. There are symptoms, there are some symptoms, we call it psychological symptoms. There are other symptoms, physical symptoms. If I have that symptom, I will talk to you about some important symptoms. So that you will know that I have examination anxiety. It is a kind of diagnosis. If I get to know that I have examination anxiety, then I will call it a method. Then I will try to overcome it. There is nothing like that. As a psychologist, I can tell you for a moment, there are things that you do not overcome, you do not control, you do not cope. You have the ability, you have the capacity to cope it. But first I will see, first I will know that I do not have it. In the psychological symptoms, the first symptom will come to you that nervousness will begin. Your eyes, your mind will not concentrate in one place. Your mind will start fluctuating. If you pay attention to the chapter, to pay attention to the topic, you will see that your mind is fluctuating from there. This is also a symptom. The second symptom will start being low on your confidence level. You will start losing your confidence. You have read everything. You will feel as if I have forgotten. I do not remember anything. You have prepared it properly. You have seen it by writing. You have seen it by testing yourself. But before going into the exam, or after sitting in the exam, you feel that I do not know anything. I have become blank. Your plate, the plates in your mind, you feel that whatever was written in it, it has been erased. You will start losing your confidence. You will see the symptoms of that. You will not feel like doing anything. In the sense that some people's mind starts crying. They start crying. They start crying too. And if they are told something at that time, if you are told that you can do it, you will repeat it again and again. You will bring a negative thought. You will start comparing it with your past. This happened in the past. I had forgotten everything. I left the paper. I did not write the 30% paper. These are your psychological symptoms. There are physical symptoms. The most important system in the physical system that comes first is the haddock. It can be mild haddock. Haddock means that your head will be very strong. It can be mild also. You will feel mild haddock. And you will start holding your body like this. You start catching your head like this. Or start hitting like this. Your head, you know in that. When you start hitting on the table with this symptom, you will start rotating your body from here to there. You will have to see it with your physical symptoms. The weather is very good. You are sitting in the air conditioning room. Sweating starts coming. You are not sweating. There is no reason to sweat. The weather is very good. You are sitting in the room. The air conditioning is on. But you will start sweating. This is your physical symptom. You will start breathing strongly. You did not come running. You did not jogging. But while doing it, your breathing will start coming up. Breathing will start coming. You will feel like you are short of... This is also a symptom. Temperature. The temperature of the body will increase all of a sudden. You do not have fever. But you will feel that the body is very warm. You will put your hand on the neck. You will put your hand on your side. You will feel this hot. Not only hot. The body looks colder than what it is supposed to be. There are two types of symptoms. Some people have physical symptoms. Diarrhea. It starts coming back. It starts coming in loose motion. These are also your physical symptoms. Notice this physical symptom. Do not ignore it. Let me tell you this. If my symptoms are coming, I am not able to think about it. But this physical symptom. When I told you about my psychological symptoms. I am not able to lose confidence. I am not able to concentrate. These are your psychological symptoms. If you start getting these psychological symptoms. This means you are at the stage of examination anxiety. If you want to understand the examination anxiety. The next step will be how to reduce it. There is something to be done. I have some problems. I can understand it. My body got cut. I can see it. I have to treat it. I have to treat it. In the same way. Examination anxiety. We will go towards treatment. Habit for me. First of all. In general preparation. You have habit for me. As you eat, drink. You have to eat in the morning. You will eat so much. You will have breakfast. You will have lunch. You have made a routine. You woke up in the morning. You have made habit. You woke up in the morning. You washed your face. You washed your face. You washed your face. In the same way. You have to make habit for study. You have to make a formula for study. You have to study. This is general. Not at the end. Not before the examination. But you have to prepare. Much before. Over months. Over years. And over years. You have to eat. Make a part of your life. Take it in habit formation. For general preparation. Second. The second thing you have to keep in mind. Managing time. We spend so much time on some topic. We don't have time on other topics. First we have to budget time. How much time we will spend on this topic. How much time we can give. Divide the entire syllabus into different components. And after dividing it into components. How much material you have in it. Plus how much is the probability of the question. You have to see how much is the probability of the question. If there is more probability. And the question of the most number comes in it. This means I have to keep it in it for maximum time. The topic which has very less probability. And where there is very little topic. Where there will be less number. Obviously I have to give less time for that. Usually it is seen. That children spend more time on simple questions. They make small topics. And when there is a big topic. We keep delaying it. This is very long. This is very difficult. There is nothing difficult. I have put it in my mind. I have put it in my thought. This is difficult. If I think this is difficult. Obviously it will be difficult. But if I have to take it out of my mind. That is why you have to make a difficult thing first. The quality of it will take more time. You have to make it first. So time management is your second general method. You have to take care of it. Then it is the third point to organize the material. Organize the material in different segments. That collect that material. Keep it like a shelf. And then in finding the material. Examination of the children. I have seen this. I have experienced this. When I have a client case. I saw that the material is there. But in finding it. It takes an hour or two to find it. And it takes time to read it. So your whole shelf. The file has to be made properly. Systematically. So that you can find the material. Take care of this. Fourth point. Outside pressure. We get a lot of outside pressure. Outside pressure. We compare it with the other side. We compare it with the other side. We compare it with the sibling. We compare it with the partner. It is the same as that. That must have been done. So what will be the pressure or what will it think? What will be the parents think? It's your career. You have to take a decision. So keep this in mind. What about outside pressure. As much as possible. Try to throw it away. Then last point. Review your past performance. Now whatever you are going to do, keep in mind the past performance. What you did in the past performance. And how much it was attained. But it was not worth the target, it was less. This means you are preparing more to go into the target. This is your preparation before the examination. Now I will tell you the second area. During the examination. When you go to the hall of the examination. So how are you preparing for that. Enter to the examination hall or sit on the table. And chair in the examination with full confidence. By saying to yourself, you can do it, you can do it, you can do it. Don't bring this in your mind, you can't do it. You can do it. As you have the ability to do it. Keep this in mind. Then be prepared. During the examination you should be prepared. You can forget some points in the middle. You can be blank from the mind. Because you have time pressure. In the exam paper you have got time pressure. Don't forget this very natural process. Don't get so involved in it. That your time is wasted. If you feel like doing a question temp. That you are stuck in that question. Don't forget, it is not coming out of your mind. Please skip it. Keep some space on the answer sheet. And move on to the next question. When we move on to the next question. This is all probability. Things will return back to your mind. The blank for a moment will return back. When it will return back. Then you start attempting that. A wide thinking. Which is negative. The children sitting in the examination. This is what we have seen for a long time. This is what we have seen. If someone takes an extra sheet from the other child. Then the anxiety level increases. Take two sheets from the other child. I am doing one for each child. You do it with your pace and speed. And don't get influenced by that. This happens a lot. Some children leave the child first. And this happens in the mind. We used to think that If I had given it before. I would have been first. How did you give it before me? In that process. We forget what we have to write. We forget what we have to produce. This has happened a lot. This is a very common symptom. In children. It has to kind of avoid. Suppose. You have three hours. Two hours. You have to attempt the examination. You have to attempt the examination. The another point. Before starting writing any answer. Kindly divide which topic. Which question. You will attempt first, second and third. Mark them on the question paper. That you want to do it in order. And the question that you have a very good answer to. You have to attempt it first. Obviously. And you have to manage the time. You have to keep the time less. That is your question. That you have to read in front of you. You just have to produce it. So you have to produce it fast. For the question that will involve thinking. Obviously you have to do time busting. You have to take more time. You have to take care of this. This will help. As soon as you attempt the questions. You will feel psychologically. You have to do 20%, 30%, 40%, 60%. You will get a motivation from inside. That you know I am reaching to the end. And if you have caught the difficult one. Where you have taken more time. Obviously 1 hour. If it takes 3 hours. If it takes 1 question. Then you will get anxiety. So you have to increase the anxiety. You are responsible. Nobody is responsible. You have to overcome this. Another thing. Please keep in mind. That have proper sleep before examination. Children study all night. They have to give examination in the morning. When your body is not properly relaxed. It is not taken proper sleep. How you can answer it? You can't answer it. Have proper sleep. Deep sleep. 4 hours. 5 hours. 6 hours. Whatever is your requirement. And before going to the examination hall. Before 1-2 hours. You should not study at all. Don't study fresh new things. What will happen if you study new things. You will get pressure on it. You will forget about it. That is why you should avoid it. These are some general tips. Now slowly in my next lot of videos. Time to time. Short video. And in the next video. The basic question that you will come up. How to overcome it. The frequently asked questions. From my 40 years of experience. Children have asked me. My clients have asked me. I will discuss about 2 topics. Good luck for your forthcoming examination. Thank you.