How To Support Your Child During Exam Period

Whether it’s their SATs or A levels, exams are stressful and require lots of preparation. If not as they go along, they will need to start at least a few months before they are scheduled. To help your child during this difficult time, we’ve teamed up with an international sixth form to create tips on how to support children with their exams.

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Provide Support and Reassurance

The best piece of advice that we’d give to any parent is to offer reassurance. Exams can be a nerve-wracking experience, especially as there’s so much at stake. Stress can make it difficult for them to concentrate and work at their best. To calm their nerves before their exams, talk to your child about this and how they are finding things at the moment. Be there to provide emotional support and words of encouragement.

Make Sure That They’re Revising

Good grades are awarded to those who work hard for them so your child will need to put in the work to do well. To make sure that their revision’s complete, they will need to manage their priorities and ensure that adequate time is made for each of their subjects. This is something which a study timetable can help with. When planning their time however, they must make sure that their schedule’s realistic as otherwise they could burn themselves out or overestimate and fail to cover crucial pieces of content.

Help Your Child to Revise

Also, to make sure that they are revising, you can set aside time to help. You can work through practice questions together and test them on what they’ve been revising or pretend to be their pupil and have them explain the concepts to you.

Identifying Their Learning Style

How does your child learn best? Do they know how to revise? There’s a theory that we all learn differently and have our own learning style. Some children have what is known as a “visual learning style” which means that they learn best when information is displayed visually, like through graphs and charts. Others have what is known as a “auditory learning style” and learn best when they are spoken to. The rest are “kinaesthetic” and prefer hands-on learning opportunities. To work out which learning style your child has, consider these three factors and your observations as their parent. This insight can help them to revise more effectively and yield better overall learning.

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