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More boys called up CBSE helpline to beat exam stress than girls

New Delhi: More boys called up the CBSE counselling helpline with stress-related queries during exams than girls, statistics have revealed.
The CBSE annual outreach programme to help students beat exam stress begins in February every year and provides counselling to students till April. However, students continue calling the helpline even after results are announced and the counselling team tries to address their stress-related queries ranging from break-up issues, the parent-children argument to difficulty in memorising, nervousness and others As per official statistics, the helpline received nearly three times more calls from boys than from girls from February 1 to May 16.
The board provided counselling to a total of 3467 callers this year of which only 74 were career related calls.
While 373 parents called the helpline, remaining 3094 calls were from students out of which only 962 were girls whereas the number of calls received from boys was 2132. Of the calls received from students, 1523 were from class X while 1431 were from class XII. 140 students from other classes also called the helpline.
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