U.P. Board to begin pre-exam helpdesk for anxious students
Hindustan TimesUnlike earlier, the UP Board is set to begin a counselling helpdesk over a month before commencement of its High School and Intermediate examinations. According to UP Board’s deputy secretary Anand Tripathi, the Board had been organising psychological counselling of its students for dealing with examination phobia during examination period. But this year, the Board has decided to set up its counselling helpdesk over a month before commencement of the examination as it was felt that examinees experienced anxiety pangs not only during examination period but much before it as the examination date approached. A total of 54,38,597 students are registered for the examination including 27,40,151 in high school and 26,98,446 in intermediate in over 27,000 schools affiliated to UP Board.