No stress: How to beat exam anxiety

Mental health professionals see more cases of students facing exam stress in the run up to national exams. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO
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SINGAPORE – When Chloe Ng was in Secondary 3 in 2022, she became terrified of taking examinations even though she had done her revision.

Chloe, now 16, in Secondary 4 and preparing to take her O-level exams, said she kept crying for no reason then. “I became very scared when I thought about exams and kept dreading them.”

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