Study Skills Tip Sheets: Exam Anxiety
Resource List
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Do you experience distress and uneasiness during the final exam season? Does the uneasiness weaken your performance? If so, you are not alone; writing exams is stressful. Have a look at this short video and handouts for tips on ways you can deal with exam anxiety.
- Guide to Exams with Less Stress Video Series, UNSWThis site contains a series of short five-minute videos (all under 3 min) exploring the stress that can come with exams. Example of topics: understanding exam stress, expert & student strategies for dealing with stress. (UNSW Sydney University)
- Managing Stress Video - By Brainsmart (2:23 min)This video explains how stress works and provides helpful tips to help you manage stress
- Bad exams, we've all failedProf Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham, UK talks about his experience with exam failure.
- Test Anxiety BookletThe AnxietyBC website has a great booklet/workbook that takes a comprehensive look into ways we can challenge our anxieties and provides solid strategies for dealing with test anxiety.
- Exam Anxiety MindShift APP (free) (iphone & android)Popular free app that helps youth and young adults cope with anxiety. The app contains tips on test anxiety, a section that helps us challenge our inner unhelpful thoughts (what we are telling ourselves), explanation of anxiety, relaxation exercises, and positive quotes, covering different types of anxiety such as performance and social anxiety. With this APP, as with many others, you are required to create an account which allows you to enter and track factors of your mood.
Student Counselling Services
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- Student Wellness Centre
The Student Wellness Centre offers urgent and non-urgent physical and mental health care to University of Saskatchewan students and their dependants.
Carry support with you: Free Mindshift app (iphone & android)
- Exam Anxiety MindShift APP (free) (iphone & android)Popular free app that helps youth and young adults cope with anxiety. The app contains tips on test anxiety, a section that helps us challenge our inner unhelpful thoughts (what we are telling ourselves), explanation of anxiety, relaxation exercises, and positive quotes, covering different types of anxiety such as performance and social anxiety. With this APP, as with many others, you are required to create an account which allows you to enter and track factors of your mood.
Exam Failure
Bad exams, we've all failed [video]: Prof Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham, UK talks about his experience with failing exams.