Your parents, your teachers, your seniors and your friends… All these people may have warned, advised or cautioned you about the BIG BAD BOARD exams that you are to face this year. Some may tell you how you should not take them for granted as they are critical for a steady academic future. Others will try to tell you which portions of the ICSE and ISC course can be categorized as important. Or how you must absolutely study all the time. Yet another set of people may warn you about how everything is very unpredictable about the ICSE Board exams. While you should give a good thought to all the advice that you get from your well-wishers, avoid getting hassled or worried before your exams. For the record, ICSE Board exams are foremost and primarily, exams. Like the ones you have taken since you were very little. Keeping that mind, you should be able to shake off the extra, unnecessary tension. Here are a few things you should remember about ICSE Boards exams before you go out and conquer them… 1. The Board examinations are a set of examinations that are organized by the CISCE and other Boards. Taking and consecutively passing in them will promote you to the next class (in case you are in class 10) and provide you with SSC certification. These certificates are helpful while for authentication of qualification in your later academic career. 2. Every year, lakhs of students appear for the first installment of ICSE Boards of their lives. So you are not the only person worrying and getting all worked up. Apart from the people taking it with you, there are millions who have taken up this examination in the past and have done reasonably well too. 3. ICSE and ISC Board results are a great way to prove yourself! You may have gone through several rounds of final examinations after each class. The ICSE Board examinations will give you a fair, and wholesome opportunity to give it your all. You do not have to worry about anything else, as these exams are given priority to, by all your family and friends, both! 4. Your style of preparation need not alter, you just need to get smarter about it! As mentioned above, people will tell you how you are supposed to study non-stop and not ‘waste' time on other activities. What you need to practise instead is some smart studying. Realising priorities in terms of ICSE Board preparation, organizing your time table and maintaining perseverance for the entire time of preparation are the key solutions. 5. Last, but not the least… Believing in yourself will help conquer all hurdles You have been preparing hard. You have kept your preparation in place and have been taking all the necessary steps to do well in exams. Then, stop. Stop worrying without reason. This is what you are supposed to be doing. You need not take into account all the thoughts that may hinder your confidence and make you feel uneasy.
