Here are some tips for exam season that I have adapted from The Psychologist:

• Address your weaknesses by doing practise tests to find out what they are so you can concentrate on them.
• Design a specific and varied revision timetable well in advance, that includes time off!
• Try explaining the more complex topics to your parents or siblings.
• Use whatever motivates you drink and food wise, as well as a quiet place and good stationery.
• Revise things that are hard to remember before going to sleep and then you are more likely to dream about them and remember them the next morning.
• If exams make you anxious use whatever helps with the anxiety, whether it be the breathing techniques or a lucky item to take in with you…
• If you are female and taking exams in the sciences – talk to your friends and remember you belong with that subject just as much as your male peers.
• Reframe nerves as excitement!
• Remind yourself that this too will pass.
• If you don’t do as well as you hoped try to think of your future self in 5 year’s time and what you might be dong then and what he/she might say to you.