Pressure to succeed from friends or family can make the stress of taking exams loom large. Ruby Wax questions her son Max about his motivation for study. She also finds out from educational psychologist Kairen Cullen how students can organise their time when they are revising, and how parents can cope.
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Ruby talks about exam stress and gets some tips from educational psychologist Kairen Cullen. Read the text version.
Ruby Wax majored in psychology at University of California, Berkeley. She later moved to England and launched a successful career as a comedian and presenter. Ruby has trained as a psychotherapist and is studying for an MA in Neuroscience.
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