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Reducing Exam Anxiety for Students

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As we near the exam period, conversations about exam anxiety and student wellness are top of mind across the university. Notably, students have expressed anxiety about in-person exams and testing. For first-year and second-year students, this will be their first term taking in-person exams in university. 

McMaster Student Success Centre has developed a variety of resources to help support students and to reduce exam anxiety. The Reducing Exam Anxiety campaign is addressing these concerns with a focus on holistic, transformational and personalized student experiences, as outlined in McMaster’s strategic framework. Members of the Teaching & Learning Strategy: Holistic and Personalized Student Experience Working Group strongly recommended a collaborative, centralized resource to make it easy for students to access exam prep and self-care supports.

There are a variety of other academic and wellness supports available on the Student Success Centre webpage for Exam Prep and Self-Care.  Please consider sharing the resources with your students.

There have been additional resources created and shared by McMaster’s Professor Hippo on Campus (in collaboration with Archway/Student Success Centre) which aim to promote mental health literacy and awareness of mental health resources on campus. These are specifically geared to first year students, and those helping them.

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