How to avoid stress during NTSE preparation?

Every student, who is serious about NTSE, will certainly experience exam stress.
This stress will decrease brain function and adversely affects the overall efficiency of
the aspirant. It is therefore, important to get rid of this exam stress so as to eliminate
the risk of burnout. Outlined below are some ways suggested by the NTSE Scholars
themselves, so that, you can put those negative feelings to one side and concentrate on
your preparation efficiently.

Take Frequent Breaks

Too much load will certainly break you. Many exam experts and psychologists agree
with the fact that the brain of an average student can focus effectively on one task for
around 45 minutes. With all this hard work happening, don’t forget to take frequent
breaks. These breaks will not only reduce your stress but will also help you to
maintain top performance. But make sure that you don’t waste your break-time in
scrolling down the news feed of facebook. Instead of that, you can go for a walk,
meditate, listen to classical music and get engaged in other activities to re-energize
your brain.

Avoid Distractions

Avoid Social Media This will be quite tough for the majority of the students but
checking your social media accounts during exam preparation is the worst type of
procrastination. But once you will conquer this hurdle, it will do wonders with your
NTSE Preparation .

Reward Yourself for Achievements

Even if they are small Self Motivation is a must for any exam aspirant. This activity
will act as a motivational carrot to keep your moral high, even at the worst time. For
example, you can reward yourself with a 10-minute TV-break, once you complete a
given topic before the prescribed deadline. Moreover, you can also reward yourself
with a game at your PS3, once you beat your last highest score at NTSE Mock Test

Be Organized

This is certainly not a new point for you but what is shocking is that a huge amount of
time will be saved with this initial effort. Prioritizing your work, time and subjects
will not only reduce your stress but will also increase your productivity. If you are
using our online platform-NTSE Guru then, features like ‘Plan your Preparation’ will
help you to design your study plan, according to your current level of preparation,
time left for the exam and the subject mix.

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

Believe or not an unhealthy diet, unhygienic lifestyle, extremely tight schedules, etc.
will affect your NTSE preparation dreadfully. During your preparation, take a diet
which is rich in proteins & vitamins, do regular exercise, take adequate sleep and most
importantly, keep your body hydrated enough. Prof. Vipin Joshi, also stresses in his
video that remaining dehydrated will certainly make you sluggish and stressed during
your NTSE exam preparation.

No matter, how much preparation one has done for NTSE, he or she will certainly
undergo the stress of the exam. But it is important for a student to pause and choose
an appropriate path that will help them to overcome this hurdle.