What is “pre-exam anxiety disorder”? ”Pre-examination anxiety disorder” is not a medical term for a specific disease, but a general term for physical or psychological stress symptoms caused by excessive exam stress. restlessness and impatience, resulting in the inability to perform normal cognitive functions and a decline in attention and observation. The physiological symptoms that often occur in “pre-examination anxiety disorder” include insomnia, dizziness, headache, chest tightness, palpitations, poor concentration, memory loss, poor appetite, gastrointestinal discomfort, constipation, diarrhea, chest tightness, palpitations, frequent urination, easy awakening after sleep, drowsiness, general weakness, and habitual depressed mood. These physiological and psychological tension symptoms that accompany examinations usually heal after the examination and with the relief of stress, and do not need to receive treatment; however, candidates with serious physical discomfort need to seek professional help, otherwise I am afraid that it may affect the performance of the examination and even evolve into a long-term depressive tendency. How to overcome pre-examination anxiety? 1, dilute the sense of goal before the examination Goal is hope, the goal is the direction to move forward, from small goals to big goals, from the near-term goals to long-term goals, goal consciousness has been accompanied by students and parents for twelve years. By the eve of the college entrance examination, this goal consciousness must be diluted. If it is overemphasized, it will add to the psychological burden of the students and the result may be counterproductive. Therefore, on the eve of the college entrance examination, parents and students should mention the goal as little as possible, do not specify how many points they must get, must get into what college. Lighten the awareness of the goal, reduce the pressure on the mind, put down the burden, relaxed, will be conducive to the normal performance of the examination. 2, into a moderate state of tension may not be a bad thing, moderate tension, anxiety, the brain can make the level of alertness, increased excitability, clarity of consciousness, concentration, etc. have been improved. Before the test, moderate tension will help improve learning efficiency, enhance memory, can improve personal adaptability to the external environment. Such as athletes before the game, moderate mental tension, heart rate increases, vasoconstriction, mobilization of the body’s potential, conducive to play a good performance. Moderate tension can also put their bodies in a state of alert, making it difficult for disease to occur and expand. We often find in the nervous work, study when not sick, after the task is completed relaxed but easy to get sick, is this reason. 3, relieve excessive tension As a candidate, on the one hand, we should build confidence, and strive to make ourselves fully revised before the examination, and play the highest level in the examination hall, on the other hand, we should be happy and emotionally stable, and walk into the examination hall easily. Advice to parents: Look at your child’s score rationally and create a relaxed family atmosphere. Don’t make the family atmosphere extremely tense because of having a candidate in the family, and don’t give your child high expectations and invisible pressure because of your own face, or because you didn’t go to college that year. Respect your child’s ideas and wishes, believe in “a piece of heaven above everyone’s head”, and treat your child’s college entrance exams with a normal heart, which may have unexpected effects. The family is the child’s happy harbor, when the child is angry, parents do not conflict with the child, parents should be less blame, more encouragement, to help children build confidence. If your child is under too much pressure, you should promptly find a specialist or doctor for psychological counseling and guidance, not to mention the random purchase of drugs to take on your own.