y is revising for exams so stressful?

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Answer 1

Probably because of worry that you won't remember it all in an exam. Worry never helped anyone. It might be too late now to read a book on how to memorise but it's worth looking at one later. Try this one:
"The Buzan Study Skills Handbook: The Shortcut to Success in Your Studies with Mind Mapping, Speed Reading and Winning Memory Techniques"
It's worth every penny.
On the day of the exam tell yourself you will remember all you need and keep telling yourself that. Don't allow your mind to tell you that you can't, then your subconscious will work positively for you.
Good luck - and don't worry so much.

Answer 2

You need a system for revising. First, call it reviewing - it's more friendly. Next break down the topics you have to study into bite sized pieces. If you are reviewing your work on say, volcanoes, try to reduce the information by about 80%. First, write the theme, in this case, volcanoes. Next write down the main idea in each paragraph, so it may be eruption, destruction, warnings. After that, add about four or five really important details to each main idea, so with eruption, you may have, magma, lava flow and pressure. So you see you will end up with about 20 really important words to remember, rather than a whole page of writing.
Another thing you can do is to put all of the really important information onto a mind map. The theme goes in the middle. Fat wiggly lines represent each main idea. You write the idea along the shape of the line.. Coming out from each main idea line, you add thin, detail lines. Again, write along the shape of the lines. This is creative and helps the information go into your memory. As you decide which are the most important pieces of information, you are learning. You could do each idea in a different colour. You could also include some images to help you remember. Ten minutes after making your mind map, look at it again for about 10 minutes. After a day, look at it for 5 minutes, then look at it for about five minutes every week until your exam. When you get to the exam, you can just sketch out the bit of the mind map that is relevant to the question and it will remind you of all the important words.

Another tip, especially when you are writing about books or poems, is to write a lot about a little part of the text, and not a little bit about lots of the book.

Get orgnised, do a little bit each day, believe in yourself. Good luck

Answer 3

You put too much importance to it. It's you're body's way of reacting to a dangerous situation, stress.

Stress is intentionally unpleasant, so the ways to get rid of it are running for your life, or fighting off the aggressor.

With the exam prep, fighting off the aggressor means knowing your stuff so well that you're no longer afraid of failing (or no longer afraid of not getting an A or whatever you feel you need to do). When the fear is gone, so is much of the stress.

And you could always go for a job to relieve some of the stress.

Answer 4

I never found revising stressful. It was good fun to see how my writting and reasoning had changed over the few months before the exam.