High school candidates should prepare rationally for the exam

The recurrence of the New Crown epidemic has forced some areas to implement a home study policy, which also poses a great challenge to students facing mid- and high-school exams. The importance of the exams to these children cannot be overstated, and schools, families, and society are doing their best to create conditions that minimize the impact of the epidemic on them, help them relieve stress, channel their psychology and help them overcome difficulties to achieve their dreams.

The mindset and skills needed to prepare for the exam at home

First, face up to tension. Nervousness is a common psychological condition that accompanies the review for the midterm and senior high school exams. You should have a correct and calm attitude towards nervousness and not worry too much about normal performance because of nervousness, otherwise, it is easy to unnecessarily increase the psychological burden.

Efficient learning requires a certain degree of tension, laziness, and indulgence or excessive anxiety are not good for learning. If you can form your learning rhythm both in and out of class, just go on smoothly; if you are not serious in class, not nervous at the end of class, and can't get excited about doing anything, you need to increase your tension level; if you are overly nervous and can't work and rest normally for a long time, you need professional counseling. Occasional tension and mood swings are normal, and there is no need to worry about them.

Second, regular rest. Regular work and rest to maintain a healthy and balanced state, not to swing between relaxation and anxiety, ups and downs. Regular work and rest can be achieved by planning when to attend class when to do homework, when to consult a teacher, and when to exercise. Planning prevents changes in mood and subjective feelings from affecting a steady rhythm and mindset.

Regular work and rest can also maintain the healthy functioning of the body, sleep well, eat well, and exercise well so that all body functions are in the best condition, which is also the basis for maintaining a good mental state.

And secondly, actively seek help. Seeking help is the most basic survival skill of modern people, is studying for the exams of young students in the head to review, but also knowing how to seek help promptly.

One is to ask for help with academics. Secondary and high school exams review for efficiency is more demanding. You should ask your teacher for help through the Internet promptly when you encounter difficulties in your home Internet classes or revision and pay attention to the learning gains per unit of time. The first thing you need to do is to ask your teacher for help, and you will get help from your teacher to improve your revision efficiency.

Second, psychological help-seeking. If you find yourself unable to make effective psychological adjustments for a long time and it has seriously affected your normal classes, revision, or rest, you need to tell your parents in time or ask your teacher for help, trusting that they have more experience and resources to provide effective advice and appropriate help.

Three Steps to Self-Regulation for Home Exam Preparation

Students who are facing the SSC exams should take the initiative to self-regulate and adapt to the stresses and challenges such as lack of learning atmosphere, parent-child relationship tensions, as well as the new situation and problems of home preparedness.

The first step is to "speak up". Whether it's emotional anxiety, academic stress, or relationship tension, the best way to deal with it is to express it, not to repress yourself, to avoid a high-pressure explosion. By speaking up, you can reduce the internal consumption of energy generated by repression and put yourself in a more relaxed state for revision, and you can also create a better family atmosphere and avoid misunderstandings and cautiousness from both parents and children due to speculation. Frank and open expression is proactive self-regulation, that can help them to sort out their thoughts, adjust their emotions, be open-minded, but also to resolve grievances, eliminate misunderstandings, to adjust their mood.

Secondly, we need to "move". Compared to studying at home and school, the lack of mutual communication and support between students makes it easy to seem like the learning atmosphere is inadequate. Unlike school, where there is a relatively stable schedule and overall progress, a home study can easily lead to the accumulation of negative emotions and slack behavior due to a lack of personal perseverance and environmental influences.

If such a situation arises, it is important to get yourself active, by taking action while adjusting your mood, rather than lying flat or passively waiting. Only by taking action can you give yourself more confidence to face the challenge. Second, to set a relatively rational plan to ensure that they have an action guide when the mood is low. Third, when the mood is bad, you may want to do exercise, which is a very good way to regulate emotions.

And then secondly, to "put down". Studying and reviewing at home is also a challenge for parents. Parents are not professional educators, and sometimes with the best of intentions, this can easily lead to parent-child tension. Parents feel aggrieved that what they say is right, but why do their children disagree and get angry? The child also feels aggrieved, he or she is already under a lot of pressure, why parents just do not understand and add to their problems?

At this point, both sides should learn to temporarily put aside, do not try to immediately solve the problem. Putting aside is not avoidance, but a temporary withdrawal from the conflict, not to lose their minds; putting aside is not sulking, but can express themselves honestly, such as "let's all calm down and talk about it later. This is a kind of wisdom, neither to avoid the problem nor to intensify the conflict.

Parents should do "three more and three less"

The family's children are facing high school exams but have to review at home, many parents are nervous and apprehensive, no teacher face-to-face personal guidance, and children will not be conscious. Is the online class effective and can your child's problems be solved in time? Is the child's online class in a normal state, and is he or she focused and working hard enough? What can be done to not become a distracting factor, but also to help the child's learning? It is suggested that parents may wish to start from the following three aspects, to help and not add to the chaos.

More attention and less nagging. The teenagers in the review stage of the high school exams, academic tasks, psychological pressure, and emotional fluctuations are easy, especially in the home Internet class stage, if the family atmosphere is not good, parent-child communication is not good, more likely to affect the physical and mental state of the child.

Some parents believe that they can't speak up, which can easily lead to new problems, so it's better to let go of the child's learning process and psychological state completely by himself to regulate. Such an approach is fine for children who have good habits and strong self-control, but it is not appropriate for teenagers who have high mood swings or relatively weak self-control.

While parents should do a good job of logistics, they should also consciously pay attention to their children for any abnormalities, such as fluctuations in eating and sleeping, lack of engagement in online classes, untimely homework submissions, emotional instability, frequent tantrums, complaints, or other behavioral problems.

But paying attention does not mean nagging. Give your child a little time to try to self-regulate. Parents who nag or get overly nervous and anxious when they see a random behavior or a little fluctuation will instead get the child caught up in it and magnify the severity of the problem. As long as the child can adjust in time through efforts, parents should not interfere too much.

More discussion and less anxiety. For children's emotional or behavioral problems, parents should also pay attention to the way they handle them, to avoid arbitrariness and anxiety. For example, some parents have weak emotional control and become anxious when they see their children's home study situation, and even arbitrarily conclude that their children do not want to learn well anymore! Do you not want to take the test? Some even give the child a dark future: you will not have a good result!

Parents need to look more at the real reasons behind the problem. Some children's poor academic performance is not the result of home study, even if they are studying at school, they are in the same state, but the home study allows parents to see them as they are.

In either case, parents should learn to talk to their children calmly and objectively about their child's problems and feelings, and help them sort out the problem at hand and try to form an improvement plan.

Be more supportive and less complaining. Parents' emotions and mindsets can have a demonstrative impact on their children and can subconsciously influence their children's judgment. For example, with home vaccination, parents should try to face the situation with a positive mindset rather than complaining about the outbreak and the vaccination strategy. People who are used to complaining are less motivated to deal with challenges and have less energy for positive thinking, or worse, use objective difficulties as an excuse for their lack of effort, which further weakens their ability to adapt to the environment.

Parents should actively cooperate with the prevention policy and work well at home on the one hand, and actively support the school's online teaching measures on the other. With the personal demonstration, children can draw positive energy from their parents, so that they can sink their hearts into the challenges and devote themselves to studying and preparing for the exams with a stable and positive attitude.