How to Help Your Teen Stress Less About Tests and Experience More Success

Learn four strategies to help your teen feel more prepared for their next test.

Luckily, I have four strategies that will help your teen feel more prepared for their next test. The key is to use every assignment as an opportunity to test prep. Let’s take a look at how your teen can make this shift so they can be more at ease and experience more success.

Do the Reading:

Often times, teens will just look for answers to the questions rather than read the material. While this does help the teen get their homework done faster, they miss the scope and sequence of the reading. Therefore, the teen does not fully understand the connections between the events or concepts being introduced, and they are unable to see the big picture. This practice of skimming the reading for answers makes it more challenging to grasp and remember the material. Whereas reading the material will give your teen a greater understanding of the material and concepts. So when it comes time to take a test, they are more familiar with the information, which makes studying a less stressful task.

Read the Extras:

In most text books, there are boxes with pictures, graphs, and flow charts that give a visual component to the information. The natural tendency is to skip these and only do the actual reading. While again this saves time, often these information boxes explain the main details in a way that is much easier to grasp and remember. By taking the time to read the extras, teens will gain a greater understanding of the material which again makes studying a less stressful task.

Answer Questions Thoroughly:

Although it is tempting to write only a basic answer, it serves teens well in the future to write a thorough and detailed answer. They also should indicate the question in their answer. These quality answers turn their homework into a valuable study tool rather than sheets of unclear facts.

Question: Who was Thomas Jefferson?

Basic Answer: He was the third president.

Quality Answer: Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. He was the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

Turn Notes into a Study Guide:

When taking notes, leave a space between the topic or question and the answer. This way, when it comes time to study, your teen can cover the answer while looking at the topic. This enables your teen to be sure they know the answer because they can not see the answer when they are looking at the question.

Typical Notes:

Thomas Jefferson — an American Founding Father who was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. He was the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

Study Guide Notes:

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. He was the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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