Click to play videoNew Delhi: At least one in two teenagers panic while giving their exams and feel their hearts race when they get their test paper. This has been found by a recent survey done on 2,000 schoolchildren in and around the capital.
“At least 40 per cent students experience blank outs before the test purely because of the stress,” says Dr Parikh.
When asked about the reason of the stress, 75 per cent students say it is because of the strong parental pressure to perform well.
To deal with the stress, 7 per cent boys and 5 per cent girls admit to taking memory pills and 40 per cent drink more caffeine than usual.
The worse part of the situation is that one of the 10 per cent students start smoking.
“The perception behind this is that kids think it is helping their memory but I want to tell them that it doesn’t,” adds Dr Parikh.
Twenty per cent students from the 13-17 years of age eat erratically. They miss meals while preparing for the exams and more than one-third of both boys and girls find it difficult to relax and sleep before an exam.
And if they do take a break to relax, half of these children go online to do so, to chat with their friends.
Not only does this decrease concentration levels and attention spans, it also causes more fatigue.
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