It’s completely normal to feel stressed and on edge about exams—stress is your body’s natural response to pressure. While it can help you stay focused and motivated, it can also become overwhelming at times. To help you navigate these feelings, we’ve gathered some resources to better understand exam stress and explore different strategies for coping.
Let us know what resource works well for you. If you have any other suggestions for our self-help pages, please email midspace@health-in-mind.org.uk.
Tips and information
Here you will find tips and information to help you understand what exam stress is, what may be causing it and different strategies to deal with it.
Exam stress – for 11-18 year olds from Mind
5 tips to help you relieve stress in the run-up to exams from BBC Bitesize
Exam stress resources from Student Minds
Managing exam stress from UCAS
Help your child beat exam stress from the NHS
Ways to cope with exam stress
Here you can find a variety of different tools and activities to help you de-stress and practice self-care:
10 stress busters from the NHS
The self-kindness toolkit from British Red Cross
Taking care of your mental wellbeing while studying from MindWell
Local colleges and universities
Here you can find mental health and wellbeing information from local colleges and universities.
Student Wellbeing at Newbattle Abbey College
Student Support at Edinburgh College
Health and Wellbeing at Edinburgh University
Organisations and services
Here is a list of organisations related to students, that can support you with exam stress:
*these websites are based in England. Some of the services listed won’t be accessible to students located in Scotland.
If you are looking for local support, please go to our service directory to find out what services and projects are available to you – Find Support