Anxiety in assessment situations is quite common. Final school exams become a significant test and stress for the child and his parents. Preparing for an exam can become unbearable suffering for a child and affect his mental state. Children and adolescents, like adults, may have different types of nervous system, temperament, memory, attention, mental abilities and emotional and personal qualities, which can affect the success of the exam and effectiveness in overcoming difficulties. How parents can help their child psychologically prepare for exams :Long before the exams, discuss which disciplines he will have to take, which ones seem most difficult to him and why. Help create a preparation plan; if your child needs your help, let him know that you are ready to help. Talk about the feelings that arise when practicing tests at home or during a practice exam. Try to accept them, treat them non-judgmentally, and help your child survive them; Remember that by trying too hard to activate your child in the process of preparing for an exam, you can only increase his anxiety and provoke protest behavior; It is important to take breaks of 15-20 minutes every 40-45 minutes of preparation . Try to provide complete comfortable rest for your child even before the onset of fatigue, and allocate time for proper sleep; It is useful to structure the material by drawing up plans, diagrams, preferably on paper. Existing techniques for effective memorization and structuring of information: grouping, classification, associations, analogies, schematization, structuring, mnemonics, intermediary method, strong point, mnemonic plan. Remember that you should not memorize the entire textbook, it is important to develop logical thinking in studying the topic, to understand the material logically, and not to cram! Make plans for the future that inspire your child. Try to avoid catastrophizing your exam results. Discuss options that would prepare your child and you for different outcomes of exam tests. “When a person is in a panic, he is not able to concentrate on solving a particular problem, however, by forcing ourselves to mentally accept the worst, we thereby relieve the burden of panic anxiety and we find ourselves in a position to search and find the right way out.” D. Carnegie Dangerous “bells” when you need to seek help from a specialist (psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist): Sleep disorders; Unexplained excessive mood swings, severe aggressiveness, protest behavior, unjustified fears, hysterics, which significantly complicate preparation and the process of passing the exam; Increasing problems with health (somatic and psychosomatic manifestations); Worsening isolation, apathy, problems with motivation, loss of interests; Nervous tics, stuttering, urinary and fecal incontinence; Self-harming behavior, suicide attempts, expressing thoughts about not wanting to live in the present or in the past. Sign up for a consultation: phone, messengers: 8-922-477-47-91 Siliverstova Ekaterina Vladimirovna