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The Parent's Guide to Exam Stress

Practical, positive ways to support and motivate your child (GCSEs, A-levels & more)

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The Parent's Guide to Exam Stress

Practical, positive ways to support and motivate your child (GCSEs, A-levels & more)

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The ultimate guide to understanding why so many children experience problematic levels of stress at school today, and what we – as parents – can do to support them at home.

Katharine Radice draws on her training in child and adolescent development and 20+ years teaching in the classroom to provide you with practical advice, valuable insights and effective strategies to support your child through exams and assessments from KS3 to A level.

The teenage years are a swirl of trying to find an identity surrounded by other people's expectations, so it's no wonder pupils are feeling the pressure. It's well known that teenage anxiety seems to be on the rise and it's visibly present in classrooms today, especially during exams and assessments.

As parents, the challenge is this: is the pressure on your child healthy or not? And if it's not healthy, what can we do about it?

The Parent's Guide to Exam Stress includes voices of students, teachers and mental health professionals, all giving their take on what the exam experience can be like for teenagers today. You will learn how to open up the difficult conversations, how to understand where your child is coming from, and how to help pave the way for your child to feel motivated, prepared and ready for their exams.

Table of Contents

Preliminaries: What you need to know before you start reading this book
Introduction: Why we need to think about exam stress

Part 1: Understanding the context for exam stress
Chapter 1: Differences in perspective between adults and teenagers
Chapter 2: Understanding what school is like today
Chapter 3: Expectations, identity and self-worth

Part 2: Key techniques to support your child
Chapter 4: Creating constructive conversations about school
Chapter 5: Establishing effective work habits
Chapter 6: Building a balanced perspective

Part 3: The journey through school
Chapter 7: Getting started at secondary school
Chapter 8: Tests and exams at KS3; Choosing GCSE subjects
Chapter 9: Creating positive expectations and a constructive work rhythm at the start of KS4
Chapter 10: Revising effectively for GCSEs; Tutoring
Chapter 11: Starting Sixth Form
Chapter 12: Getting ready to leave school

Acknowledgements
References

Product details

Green Tree
Published 12 Mar 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781399425261
Imprint Green Tree
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Katharine Radice

Katharine Radice is an experienced author, teacher…

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