AMMAN — Tawjihi
receives special attention from the educational system, teachers, and parents,
but students bear the heaviest burden throughout the process, which determines
their post-school future.
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Paying attention to
the psychological and health aspect is no less important than paying attention
to the academic aspect of the Tawjihi, argued some students who started their
exams in the current semester on June 30.
Tawjihi student Amr
Al-Masadeh said “I was optimistic, but the Arabic test affected me
psychologically to the extent that I cannot overcome it to focus on the next
test.”
He maintained that
his family supported him from the beginning by creating a “suitable atmosphere”
for him to study and concentrate well, which helped him to deal with the
challenges of studying.
Khaled
Al-Seyyahien, another Tawjihi student, said students need a larger time gap
between test to allow them more time to study. “Now we need good time duration
between test because the situation now does not commensurate with the scope and
difficulty of the material,” he said.
He explained that
external factors affect students and their need to focus during studying time.
He said such factors include street noise coming from vehicles selling gas,
which play irritating and distracting music through loud speakers as well as
other street vendors.
Ahmad Al-Masaadeh,
spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, told
Jordan News that the
ministry has published tips and instructions to the Tawjihi students, such as
going to the exam site a half-hour earlier so as not to feel rushed or anxious.
Others include slowly and cautiously answering exam questions.
“We also advise
students to sleep sufficiently the night before a test, to review exam
questions from previous years, to organize one’s self during the exam by
starting to answer the easy questions and gradually move to what they consider
as tougher ones,” he said.
Ali Mohammad, an
educational counsellor at a private school, said that to prepare students
psychologically, schools must make their exams, which come prior to the ones
conducted by the ministry, closer to the government-run examinations.
He said that
preparatory and guidance sessions are important for the Tawjihi students before
the start of examination to prepare them to what to expect.
Clinical
psychologist Laurice Khoury pointed out that the tension and anxiety
accompanying this stage is natural because it is a fateful stage, which
requires focusing on the exam, and avoid thinking of what will follow.
“I recommend eating healthy foods and not eating and
studying at the same time, paying attention to the quality of meals, which
would affect student’s focus and memory,” she said. She also recommended
“enough sleep and rest.”
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