The IAS exam dates are nearing!
The above line might have only led to an anxiety spike, right?
When exam dates come nearer, we hear a common term during these days known as “exam fever”!
No one is new to this term, right? Each one has experienced this kind of fever, isn’t it?
Indeed, exam-related stress and anxiety are common, especially when exam dates come closer!
Though we cannot avoid stress, we can learn to manage and cope with it!
Remember, “A mind at rest works best!”
So, how can one manage stress effectively?
One of the best ways to manage stress is being well-prepared for the exam! National IAS Academy, a renowned Coaching Centre in Bangalore can help you with that. The institute is known to provide the best IAS coaching in Bangalore. They help make the challenging IAS journey a smooth one for their students by guiding them, clearing all their doubts, and providing word-class teaching and training. They make their students well-prepared for the IAS exam, which helps boost confidence in students and the IAS journey appears easy to them!
Other than getting the proper guidance and being well-prepared for the exam, there are other ways to help one deal with IAS exam stress!
In this article, Mr. Sumanth Makam of National IAS Academy, Bangalore, provides 8 valuable tips on effectively dealing with IAS exam stress and also gives a surprise at the end!
These are the eight steps to defeat stress!
8 Tips to Deal with IAS Exam Stress
- Make a study plan: Making a plan is the first step in managing stress! A plan is the most powerful weapon that helps one win the battle against stress! A study plan or a timetable kills half of our stress. It acts as a roadmap that shows us the direction, thus making our exam preparation journey an easy, smooth, and stress-free one! Thus, Mr. Sumanth Makam emphasizes creating a study plan for IAS exams.
- Proper Sleep: It is said that one needs to sacrifice the dreams that they see with their closed eyes to make their dreams that they see with open eyes a reality! But Mr. Sumanth Makam doesn’t believe so! He feels that it is necessary to see dreams with closed eyes to make the dreams seen with open eyes a reality! Yes, a good sleep of at least six to seven hours is a must to fight stress and crack the IAS exam successfully!
- Avoid the rat race: It is true that the world has become competitive now! It is also true that competition motivates one to do better. But not always! The competition encourages one to compare oneself with others and leads to distraction. Instead of focusing on oneself and one’s preparation, the focus shifts on others which negatively affects one’s preparation and performance. As one looks at others, their focus shifts from their path, and thus they may fall due to carelessness and lack of focus. Remember, no two journeys and paths are the same! So, there’s no need to compare. Focus and enjoy your own journey. Competition leads to stress and discourages one from enjoying the exam journey! So, stay away from the rat race and focus and enjoy your own journey, as the journey is what determines the destination! And after all, isn’t it said that the journey is more important than the destination?
- Embrace positivity: It is the light of positivity that vanishes the darkness of stress and anxiety! Thus, Mr. Sumanth Makam believes that the best way to deal with IAS exam stress is to stay positive and happy. Have you heard the phrase, “Think of the devil, and the devil is here?” So, why not think positive and attract positivity and success! Be the magnet of positivity to attract positivity and success! One can stay happy and positive by taking some time out to pursue their hobbies and do things they like. Popularly known as the “Me-time,” is essential to cope with exam stress. A positive mind and mood replaces tiredness with energy and enthusiasm and motivates one to perform better by improving their overall focus.
- Eat healthy: Healthy food is not only required for a healthy body but also for a healthy mind and brain. For a calm and stress-free mind, Mr. Sumanth Makam advises including healthy foods in one’s diet like fruits and vegetables and avoiding junk foods.
- Breaks are good: Isn’t driving continuously without a break or halt tiring and stressful? In the same way, always studying without taking a break is tiring and stressful. And a tired brain finds it difficult to understand things and is less focused. So, it is essential to take breaks in between as this makes the brain and mind fresh. This helps the brain to understand and grasp things easily and quickly, and the focus is also more. Make the brain relaxed and not taxed!
- Practice meditation and yoga: Meditation and yoga are the keys to a calm and peaceful mind! Mr. Sumanth Makam emphasizes that his students do meditation and yoga every day to calm the mind and cope with exam stress and anxiety! He believes that yoga and meditation are the paths to the destination of calmness! And a calm and stress-free mind is necessary to crack the exam successfully as it works, thinks, and understands things best when relaxed and stress-free.
- Keep the faith: Faith is the shield that protects one from the enemy called stress and anxiety! Faith is what helps one overcome the tide called stress that one confronts during the exam journey and helps one have a smooth exam journey and reach the destination of success! Confidence and faith can help one overcome all kinds of challenges and problems and are the paths to the destination of success! Only when you believe will you achieve!
Time for Surprise
Bonus 1: Exercise and physical activities can also help combat stress effectively.
So, what are you waiting for?
You are just 8+1 steps away from defeating the enemy called stress and reaching the destination of success and victory! As stress is the biggest obstacle in your journey to success and cracking the IAS exam!
So, it is now time to win the battle against stress and get closer to the destination of victory by taking the steps mentioned above to combat stress effectively.
Now is the time to eradicate the word “exam fever” from our dictionary and make the exam journey enjoyable and smooth, and no longer stressful!
Mr. Sumanth Makam concludes by saying, “At our coaching institute in Bangalore, we not only help you reach a beautiful destination but also help you have a beautiful and enjoyable IAS exam journey by helping you manage and defeat the obstacle of stress effectively and make learning fun! As we believe that along with the destination, the journey is also equally important.”
Best Wishes for the IAS exam!