Exam Phobia

See how an exam can affect your whole life?

You get insomnia, depression, anxiety attacks, which lead to sleepless nights. Before, during, and after the exam period. Of course, it intensifies dramatically when the results are about to be released.

Oh, the torture of it all...

Why can't we kids just have a nice, relaxing life?

As in, no exams??!?

You may say that exams are good for us, blah blah blah......

But at what cost?

Exams have become the focus of our lives, overwhelming us, as though our existence in this world is for the sole purpose of taking exams after exams.

Now, I'm not saying that exams are bad or exams are of no use to us.

But when it's at the expense of our health, both physical and emotional, we really need to rethink it.

When an exam approaches, students tend to stay up late, some even staying up through the night (with the help of loads of coffee). This weakens the immune system, making students easy targets of disease causing bacteria and viruses.

Then, students get nervous when exams approach. They may be so nervous before an exam that they can't concentrate on anything that they are reading. During the exam, they may be too tensed up that they panic when they see the question paper, and their brain blanks. So, how do you expect them to score in exams?

Surely these are not good for the students? Or anyone else for that matter.

The physical beating their bodies take and the emotional turmoil they go through, exam after exam.

What will happen to them?

Will they become a nut-case, like what I'm becoming now?

Or will they become a psychopath? Going around screaming in the middle of the roads?

Or will they become super-nerds? Burying their heads in books far heavier than them and have no knowledge whatsoever about living a life, or even socialising (with people, not books)?

Now, isn't that an interesting world?

I'll be waiting to see if that happens......