For millions of students across India, the word “exam” instantly triggers a mix of emotions — nervousness, restlessness, even fear. In classrooms, coaching centres and homes, anxiety levels tend to ...

Parents can feel hopeless when their children experience the huge emotional burden that comes with final-year exams. Sometimes our best intentions may actually make our children (and ourselves) feel ...

For many teenagers, anxiety is more than occasional stress or nerves. It can make school feel overwhelming, strain friendships and turn everyday situations into something that feels unmanageable. When ...

Former teacher Professor of Education David Putwain says "heavy-handed" messages around test results can fuel extreme worry among some 16- to 18-year-olds, even when others respond well to such ...

GCSE exams are under way and many students will be feeling the pressure to get the grades they need to pursue their education or employment goals. Teachers and parents want students to perform at ...

Much as anxiety commandeers thought processes— jump-starting bouts of worry, demanding hypervigilance, imposing a sense of danger—it is a physiologic state, a response to detection of threat somewhere ...