![]() ![]() “This year, we placed greater emphasis on mindful exercises, instructing students to take a deep breath and meditate five minutes before exams, which helps them focus more positively.” “We arranged special sessions for digital detoxification, which helped students get off their phones and return to their books,” she said. As a result, schools began planning solutions right from the beginning of the year.Įlaborating on digital detoxification, Poorva Shingre, counselling psychologist and school counsellor at Kanakia RBK School, Mira Road, told HT that two years of Covid had seen many students get digitally addicted. Then there was post-Covid digital detoxification, necessitated by students’ constant use of mobile phones for their distance classes. A lack of concentration was the most glaring – sometimes the children could not even sit for three hours at a stretch to write a paper. This academic year, schoolteachers noticed many different problems among students. Parents, on their part, are taught ways to reduce their children’s stress. ![]() The techniques range from regular deep breathing to five minutes of meditation right before they begin writing an exam paper. “We then requested his school to provide counselling, and a few sessions were organised.” Schools pull out all stops to ease students’ stress before boardsĪhead of the Class 10 and Class 12 boards, several schools have begun additional hours of counselling for students on how to cope with stress and ace the exams. “His marks were unsatisfactory even in the practice exams because he couldn’t finish writing his papers,” said Sawant. His son’s Class 10 exams are due to begin in the first week of March but the youngster is unable to sit and study for three straight hours. Mumbai: Suresh Sawant is an anxious parent.
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