While you reading this you are probably busy preparing for exams or writing it for that matter. Exams has been through the ages a fearful and anxiety provoking exercise. No matter how old you get exams still bring up images of being evaluated, forgetting information, or self-doubt at times… It seems we are “wired “to be wary about exams. This creates in us an “I wish the exams are soon over” response…

Let us re-look this exam business a little bit –

What matters about exam is that you:

• See it as an opportunity to test yourself on all the effort you put in attending classes.
• Preparing for the exams, you teach yourself to organise yourself, your time, cut out what is not important. On the long run you are learning to PRIORITISE… a skill you will need in your future career.
• As a runner exercise to run and win a race…… during the exam period, you also learn to put goals out there for yourself to achieve.
• Share quality times with fellow-students to prepare for exams… these are usually the times when you form good bonds with class mates because you are together in the “struggle”.
• Learn how to deal with results- sometimes it is not as you expected but pick yourself up and try again…

Life is full of different “exams” it depends on our approach to them…

LET’S DO THIS!!!

Janine van Sitters-Mintoor