ACADEMIC PRESSURE

- Too much to Handle

Presented By
Shakeeb Arefin,
E.E(C), Roll No.13

What is it??
It is the mental stress that
initiates from schools and
the education system.
Often , it is the pressure
that comes along with
pursuing an educational
qualification.
Academic stress is especially
hard on undergraduate students who
have recently cocooned out from
a not so independent schooling system.

Academic Pressure:
Reasons
These pressures mainly come from:

Parental Expectations.
Students who are forced to study
specific subjects against their own
wishes.
Fear of Failure.
Grades are seen as a benchmark for
prospective successes in life.
Issues with Time Management.

Parental
Some Parents are always
Expectations:
pushing
their children to excel

academically.

Parental pressures to pursue

academic success have both
positive and negative effects on
their children.
From the parents perspective it
is seen as an investment for
their better future.

Forced to study specific subjects

against their own wishes

Parents want their children to work

in a profession in which they have a
good chance in succeeding
economically. They feel that studying
in general subjects wont be as
lucrative as studying engineering,
medicine, business or law.
And they are right to some extent.
However, many youngsters do not
have the same priority as their
parents do. They may be more
interested in a not so lucrative career
but on one that matches their
interests.

Fear of Failure

Students want to get an A

so desperately that they
sacrifice their own
creativity and choose an
easy way out simply to get
better grades.

They come to prefer easier

tasks not because they are
lazy, but because they are
rational
After all, if the goal is to get
an A, their odds are better if
they avoid taking
intellectual risks

Grades are seen as a benchmark

for prospective successes in
life.

Students begin to think of

themselves as nothing more than a
test score, and they lose sight of
the actual purpose:

LEARNING

Issues with Time

Management
External forces also
create academic
pressures. Many students
fail to practice effective
time management and
are good in
procrastinating.

The solution requires

dedication, commitment
and discipline in daily life.
Students should balance
their daily studies with
other extra-curricular
activities to gain a good
balance in life.

Why it is Bad?

Academic Pressure forces

students to perceive negative
thoughts about education
and the purpose of their lives.

Most students who cannot

handle academic pressure try
to escape from it. They vent it
out through negativity and if
unsuccessful take the
extreme step -

Academic Pressure leads

to

Elevated Stress levels

Tendency of Cheating
Unsocial Behaviour
Obsession with
Grades
Health issues etc.

So what to do???

Here are some suggestions to avoid or

overcome academic pressure:
Most importantly: Dont stress
about Being stressed

Set your Goals

Manage your time

Communicate with teachers

and parents and friends.

Factors influencing
Academic Pressure
1.

2.

3.

Parents
Faculty or Institutions
Students perception

Parents

Peer Pressure from neighbours and relatives

People around parents asking questions about the marks of children

and comparring their kids performance.

Financial issues- Financial issues from their own and demands

from institutions bring pressure to their minds.

Non-listening of children

Over-expectation and Job fear of children's-

Children, Teenagers not ready

to listen advices from parents. This brings pressure to parents.

Parents getting their own pressure by expecting more from the

children. They wanted their children should be on the top of the
academic ladder. Job fear and Employment risk also bring pressure
into their minds.

Faculty

Faculty Or Institutions

Result oriented expectations Institutions expecting marks and

100% pass results from very subjects.
Putting faculty under pressure for not bringing all students at same
level, which is not possible.
Comparing other faculties with one and playing the shame and
blame games.
Students mindset- Students are not hearing advices of Faculties .
Classrooms became a place for Testing Teachers.
Students taking advantages of free minded faculties and makee
them cool by behavior but not giving results.
Students never understand the purpose of teaching.
Over load of other works other than teaching - Teachers or
Faculties are not only working in front of students. They have
been given other works too. Institutions giving other
responsibilities also affects their classsroom behavior. Strikes,
Sudden leaves, Indifinite closes bring them pressure of completing
the syllabus in given time.
Family issues also affects them.
Job security - This is the extent to which lack of job security and
job changes are a source of pressure, for example:
------> job insecurity
---- lack of job permanence, e.g. temporary/fixed term contracts

Students perception

Interest towards subject Students are not ready to learn.

Just wants to get marks. So understanding the subject is

difficult to them. Secondly, Not concentrating in class and
sudden questions coming from faculties gives them pressure.
Fear of tests and examinations and
lack of interest in field.
Family issues and Friends issues
Problems in real life brings pressure.
Family issues, Fathers job, Mothers
illness,
Financial situation of the family
are the major reasons.

Distractions

TV,games, mobile,

sms and movies , outing are the

major distractions.

CONCLUSION

Parents

Are
You
Followin
g?
Faculty

Its a triangular
realtionship.
One should
understand
others two.
Elders should
express their real
in tension of
growing up the
Student student.

It will reduce the

pressure.

THANK
YOU