Guest on the line: Corna Olivier -Registered counsellor and lecturer at Stadio.(A private higher educational institute)

Social conversations: How to reduce anxiety while waiting for exam results?

 Occupying the space between finishing your exam and waiting for your grades to get released can feel like you’re reading a suspenseful Gothic novel...

...particularly when you aren’t very sure about how you did.

You might feel like something uncanny is skulking in the distance, ever so present and closing in. Is this a rendition of Frankenstein, but where Frankenstein’s monster is the grade release? Sadly, you don’t get to glimpse its true form yet (and maybe for a while).

This sensation of suspense can grow like a flower in a baleful nosegay; you aren’t sure if you want to see your grade...or stay in this limbo stage of not knowing.

Here’s how to free yourself from the heavy anxiety coiled about you—and keep your sense of dread at bay as you wait.