Coping with studying stress ! How I did it?
I am a 20 year old student. I live in Sri Lanka, blessed by a middle class family. I still am a student and have been for the last 13 years or so with a competitive basis. If anyone knows anything about academics in Sri Lanka, it is the sheer intensity of competition among students in the country. Everyone tries their best to out perform the other. The feeling of competition starts very young, for some as young as grade 1 or roughly around 7 or 8 years of age. This is due to the fact of small children sitting for the grade 5 scholarship exam in the country. It is a mandatory exam to get into a government funded school and the higher you score the better your chance at getting into a top ranked school in Sri Lanka. As the school education system builds the fundamentals for the university education, parents take the utmost responsibility of trying to make their young ones work the hardest at the maximum capacity at such a young age to score well for the exam. I personally neve...