Indian School Muscat offers counselling services to overcome CBSE exam stress

Muscat: CBSE has approved all four counsellors of Indian School Muscat to provide pre-examination tele-counselling services for parents and students of classes X & XII.
The Pre-Examination counselling for students and parents has begun from February 1 and will continue up to April 22, 2016. This is the 19th consecutive year that CBSE will provide psychological counselling services to students at the time of preparation as well as during the examinations to overcome exam related stress.
The CBSE annual counselling is an outreach programme which is carefully designed keeping the heterogeneity of students’ population and geographical spread. Multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counselling, question answer columns in newspapers and online counselling through CBSE website are used to reach out to more and more examinees during this phase.
CBSE Tele-Counselling is offered by Principals and trained counsellors from within CBSE affiliated schools located in and outside India. It is a voluntary, free of cost service provided by the participants.Following are the ISM counsellors: Mr. Preshob Valapilakandy, Dr. Benny Varghese Paduvan, Ms. Bubly Devarajan and Ms. Tanuja Sharma.