Exam Stress (URGH!!!)

I looked through all the videos and decided to comment on this particular one. It is because I find that at this moment, these issues seem to be more worrying than the others. Exam stress is increasingly evident in a lot of students.This video actually tells us a lot about the education system being focused towards doing well academically, on paper. However, that is only on paper. And to me, it really matters a lot whether at the point of test, is the student well enough? In terms of mental and physical. That will affect the performance. So schools should not only look at results results and more results.

I feel that students are being stressed due to their parents, teachers and peers. In this video, it shows us that parents are pressurising their children especially when they compare them with other kids like neighbour's children, or even their own siblings. This makes them feel unwanted and not cherished by their parents when they compare them with others and comment that they are not up to the mark. I feel that parents shouldn't do that as we should all understand that different people have different abilities. If your child doesn't do well in studies, it doesn't mean he will not succeed in life. Parents should encourage them to study hard instead of scolding them and making them feel demoralised.

Teachers are supposed to teach and I feel, more importantly, to motivate students to study hard. However, in this video, I feel that the teacher is ridiculous. She should try her best to motivate students. She did, but she did it in the form of extrinsic motivation where she used rewards as motivation for students to do well in their tests. And it is very obvious that she is very biased. The way she talks to the top three students is totally different from how she speaks to the others. When she lectures the students that didn't do well, she uses phrases like "this is so easy", "irresponsible" etc. In my opinion, these are very hurting and demoralising. Students might develop low self-esteem as a result of that.

According to the students, the teacher's pace is too fast. Though the teacher is ridiculous, I feel that for this point, the students themselves should tell the teacher about it, or else the teacher will never know how to help them in their studies. Only then, it will benefit both the teacher and most importantly, the students. Personally, I feel that there is a place for values education in a crowded curriculum because values can be cultivated not only in moral educational classes. It can be cultivated through normal content-based lessons.



Jasmine