As board exams approach, households shrink to a narrow script: study, scores, repeat. Conversations that once included dreams, friendships and small failures turn to marks, ranks and focus.
For many teenagers, that shift does more than tighten schedules, it robs them of language for their fear.
Students are telling us this is real. Across OECD countries, 59 per cent of students said they often worry that taking a test will be difficult and 66 per cent worry about getting poor grades, a PISA analysis found.
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India’s National Mental Health Survey reported a 7.3 per cent prevalence of mental disorders among adolescents, signalling a steady background burden before exam stress spikes.
“When marks an
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