its that time of the year when students are buried in their books learning and memorising every bit of the chapters learnt in the past semester late night study sessions consuming endless cups of coffee and lack of sleep adds to the stress that many students face during examinations in the middle of all of this how do colleges help students to deal with the stress team bt finds out morethe many stressbuster options that are available on campusof late colleges have been lending a helping hand to students so that the stress does not get to them many colleges have implemented different mechanisms which help students to be stressfree during exams one such example can be seen at symbiosis institute of business and management sibm bengaluru where the administration has three dogs on campus a lot of us on campus have had to leave our pets back in our hometowns and the presence of the dogs bir senior and junior and baht on campus helps relieve stress after a super hectic day of lectures and tests their play time matches our pre and post class schedules before we go to class they play catch in the basketball court and come running to students if they are well acquainted with them else their shelter is a cute space in the basement to keep them away from the sun during the day so at times students even go there and help their caretakers in feeding them which in turn helps take our mind off exams says riddhi jasani a student at the college in addition to this the college also has several indoor games for students who make use of these during their breaksst josephs college on the other hand has carrom boards at different locations in the college for students to play we have carrom boards in the lobbies and anybody from students to teachers can play there are no restrictions however we have seen these being occupied by students most of the times says kiran jeevan professor and staff coordinator at the college the same is followed at cmr institute of technology where students make the most of indoor and outdoor gaming equipment we usually play different sports before exams to calm our nerves some of the most popular indoor games that we indulge in during exams are card games chess carrom and more says aman singh rawat a first year student from the collegemeanwhile at pesit a concept of extra working day ewd activities helps students deal with exam stress we have ewd activities once a week where we conduct light games friends and classmates get together for this and this helps beat exam stress says shivam mishra a student at pesitcounsellors and teachers to the rescuewhile games and pets maybe some of the methods that colleges have adopted recently having a counsellor on campus whom students can approach and have a heartfelt conversation with anytime is one of the most common practices a