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Podcast discusses exam anxiety in international students and methods for support, highlighting personal experiences and available resources.
Uni ambassador Anna Boldyreva and counsellor Birgit Thurm talk about exam anxiety: How is it affected by the status of international students? Which methods and support offers are there to deal with it? Host: Anna Boldyreva was Uni ambassador in the winter term 2023/24. On her blog she reports about her experiences in the first semester as an international student at the university of Jena. She herself suffers from exam anxiety. Guest: Birgit Thurm is a systemic consultant. Since 2015 she works for the Psychosocial Counselling at the Studierendenwerk Thuringia. There she also hosts group courses for students with exam anxiety. Part 1: Anna’s experiences with exam anxiety 01:14 How does Anna’s exam anxiety show? 02:00 How does your status as an international student influence your exam anxiety? Part 2: How to accomplish exam anxeity 02:55 Which Methods are there to accomplish exam anxiety? 04:45 How can one best prepare for an exam? 06:13 What does the Studierendenwerk offer if someone suffers from exam anxiety and can international students participate? 07:08 Is is good or not so helpfull to speak with other people with exam anxiety? Shownotes: • Anna’s blog (german): https://www.uni-jena.de/international/studium-in-jena/gute-gruende-fuer-jena/jubos/jubos-anna • Podcast episodes with university ambassador Anna at the beginning and the end of the semester: o Start of the semester: https://www.uni-jena.de/en/podcast-uni-jena-international#JUBoS_Start o End of the semester: https://www.uni-jena.de/en/podcast-uni-jena-international#JUBoS_end • Podcast episode with Birgit Thurm about the Psychosocial Counselling: • https://www.uni-jena.de/en/podcast-uni-jena-international#support3 • Support offers in case of exam anxiety at the Studierendenwerk o Psychosocial Counselling (single counselling): https://www.stw-thueringen.de/en/counselling/psycho-social-counselling/ o Course- and group offers (in german): https://www.stw-thueringen.de/beratung/gruppenangebote.html • Uni embassador Emirhan’s experiences with the pomodore method (german): https://www.uni-jena.de/international/studium-in-jena/gute-gruende-fuer-jena/jubos/jubos-emirhan/methode-zur-steigerung-ihrer-lerneffizienz
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