Tips for parents and learners on building resilience for exams

At this critical time in their cognitive and emotional development, children have experienced a lot of historical events, and technology has made these experiences available to them right from their living rooms.

Below are Jackie Cook’s tips on how parents and learners can promote and build resilience during this exam period.

4 tips for parents:

It is important to teach students to recognise and acknowledge the way they are feeling.Never tell a student that “millions of other students have gone through this, so just get on with it”. Instead, see where you can assist in what is causing them the most stress.Remind them that exams are not memory tests – they should rather try to…

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