Student Pressure

 Pressure to do well at school has been shown to increase stress and anxiety in students, leading to poorer physical, social and emotional health. Students can feel pressure from their parents, school, teachers, society or themselves to achieve higher grades and academic success. Recognising the signs of stress and anxiety in our students, helping them to develop practical coping skills, working in partnership with parents, reinforcing the importance of balance, and establishing realistic expectations are all helpful approaches schools can take to support students who feel pressure to do well academically. When the system or the authority, of which an individual is a part of, considers the academic performance card more valuable than the inherent skills, cases of academic pressure rise. Textbook oriented teaching system, rote learning method, examination system for awarding degrees and degree based job selection systems are few prominent factors that are smoothly building academic ...