Stress

Have exams coming up? Sometimes the pressure you feel can help keep you focused, other times it can cause stress. Check out these tips to help you cope with stress during exam time.

Exam time = stress time. Whether you’re at school battling your HSC, VCE, QCS, NTCE, SACE, WACE or TCE (phew!), or you’re at TAFE or university, exam stress or general Year 12 stress can be really tough.

To help reduce stress and ensure that you're as organised as you can be, learn more about planning and looking after yourself and about staying focused in order to be as ready for the exam as you can be.

Studying Mindfully

A powerful tool to help your productivity awaits you. And it’s not coffee.

The following page will outline the basic steps students should undertake during their studies both at home and at school, as well as tips on exam preparation and techniques.

Managing stress is easier when you know what it is. Explore tips & stories.

This resource is designed to help you support your students (and their parents and carers) through the stressful exam period. It includes a suite of activities intended to help teachers or wellbeing staff better understand how students experience stress. Interactive activities can be used to promote class discussion and to help those who may not be coping with the stress in their lives.

How I overcame exam anxiety – Liam Maher, 2017 HSC student

Year 12 exams - managing stress

IS YEAR 12 REALLY THAT HARD?

Learning to handle stress in healthy ways is very important. Fortunately, it is easy to learn simple techniques that help.

This video discusses the healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms we use to deal with life stresses.

At times, we can feel stress and anxiety reach new levels. Well, to help relieve some of your stress and anxiety, here are some daily habits that can reduce stress and anxiety.

This video discusses what stress is and talks about healthy ways for high school students to react and handle stress.

The Stress container is a metaphorical model that helps us work out what things in our lives are stressing us out and some things that we might be able to do to reduce the impact of that stress.

Are you feeling nervous or stressed out about a big test that’s coming up?

How to practise Mindfulness with Thubten Gelong. A helpful guide to mindfulness and how it can help with exam stress.

some year 12 advice from a year 12 student

Managing Stress - Brainsmart - BBC

In this video, you’ll learn strategies for coping with stress.