Mangaluru: Exams are a crucial part of education and a source of stress for many students. In order to combat crippling anxiety which impinges on the academic performance of students, a highly useful and motivational session on 'Handling Exam Stress’ was conducted by noted psychiatrist Dr Supriya Hegde Aroor for the II PUC students of Expert Pre University College Valachil, here.

This session was held as part of the ongoing ‘Edu-Path Lecture Series 2018’ in the cultural centre of the campus. Addressing the students, Dr Supriya Hegde emphasized that stress is present in every individual’s life and positive stress known as ‘Eustress’ is essential for everyone to achieve and progress in life, but the distress resulting out of anxiety, pressure of achieving academic goal, competition etc needs to be addressed to and eased out. She explained the causes of stress and techniques to overcome it.

Later, the students interacted with the guest speaker with numerous queries related to stress and its management.

Dr N K Vijayan Karippal principal honoured Dr Supriya Hegde with a memento. Shubhashree accorded a formal welcome to the dignitaries and anchored the programme. Kusumitha expressed words of gratitude.