Bonus Post: How to Help Your Teen Deal With Disappointing Exam Results
Perfect exam results are not a thing.
Hey Everyone,
With NCEA exam results starting to come out today in New Zealand, I thought it was timely to send this reminder that no student gets or needs perfect results.
If your teen has received some disappointing results, I’m really sorry. That really sucks. Especially if they did actually study and try hard.
But I’m here to remind them that it’s okay.
No one gets perfect results. Even doctors (I should know I’m married to one) and lawyers (I should know I am one) don’t get perfect results all the time. It’s a myth.
So here is a post I first wrote about in The Study Gurus days about how to help your teen deal with disappointing exam results, and it’s still very relevant today. Maybe even more with all of the pressure that students seem to be under.
As with every cloud, there is a silver lining. You can read it here:
Exam Results Decompress: How to Deal With Disappointing Results at High School
If your teen hasn’t got the exam results they were hoping for, I want to provide a bit of comfort and hope, because these results are just one set of out of many your teen will receive over the years, so it’s really important that we don’t lose our cool and dive into the depths of despair.
Sending your teen lots of love — here’s to them and their bright future.
Thanks so much for reading,
Clare x