How to Relax Yourself with These 10 Exceptional Tips to Avoid Exam Stress?

Are you affected by the stress of exams? Are your grades getting affected from these stresses? Are you looking for some tips to avoid these stresses
then you are in the right place. Follow these ten tips that help you to avoid exam stresses.

1.     Read something out of the course

Divert your mind from course books and try something different to read. Read something so that the follow of studies does not breaks and you could distract your concentration to relax it. So the next time you feel exhausted with course books try to read something other than course for 15 minutes to distract the stress.

2.     Decrease intake of sugar

Scientific fact about exam stress suggests to decrease sugar intake as cortisol is released by adrenal glands when you are under stress. This cortisol gives you a feeling of stress so to reduce such feeling decrease the amount of sugar in your daily routine. The most effective time is to control sugar intake in the morning as the blood sugar clock is most effective in the morning. You need to take breakfast without sugar intake, have protein items, fruits and vegetables along with fish meat to reduce your stress.

3.     Don’t touch your mobile

Yes mobile phone causes stress and creates negative impacts on health of your brain. Exam is the perfect time to treat your brain. So use your smart phones smartly. Tell your mobile to stop notify, check your feeds only once or twice to the max. Switch off your mobile especially just a day before exam.

4.     Get out of your home

You need to increase your serotonin that help to concentrate and understand things without taking much time.  You need to get sunlight for at least 10 minutes to keep the serotonin levels happy and healthy. But make sure that you are wearing cap and have applied sunscreen in case you are exposed to sunlight directly.

5.     Sing to soothe

If you like to sing then do it out load when you are stressed. This can help you lift your spirit and decrease your tension. Singing releases endorphins that give you pleasure and decreases your cortisol levels. So sing to soothe your tension and increase your concentration.

6.     Manage your time

Manage your time as it is precious and is flying by. Apply time management techniques that decrease the anxiety due to exams. Manage time including your sleep and food so that all your necessities are fulfilled and help you to focus on your studies. Make schedule and include margins of error. Try to follow this schedule as a fixed appointment.

7.     Write about things worrying you

Writing about fear factors helps students to bear them. It’s experimented so try it yourself and experience the difference.

8.     Hear calming and quite music

As mentioned above singing helps to reduce stress similarly listening to calm and smooth music enables you to control your stress and calm you down. The genre you can listen should be something calmer like classical, soothing and slow.

9.     Manage your task

Manage your tasks and take them as one at a time. Multitasking increases your heart rate, reduces work quality and actually wastes time. During exams take a smarter approach and work one at a time.

10.  Sleep enough

Sleep and stress is a two way relationship. Exams either make your sleep disappear or makes you want it more to escape the stressed scenario. Both are bad for your health and for your grades so plan your healthy sleep and follow the plan. 

Author’s Bio

Melisa Peter is a professional blogger along with part-time blog writer for My-Assignment-Helps. She has completed Masters education from The University of West London. She is an associate professor and has wide experience regarding blog writing and motivational speaking.