Men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als are cau­tion­ing par­ents and guardians of stu­dents who re­ceived their Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am re­sults on Thurs­day night to man­age their re­ac­tions to the out­comes.

Psy­chi­a­trist Dr Var­ma Deyals­ingh re­mind­ed par­ents to re­main calm re­gard­less of how the child per­formed in the ex­am, as they can sense it.

“Be­cause your chil­dren will feed on that, and that will al­so make them more anx­ious... what you have to do is re­alise that what­ev­er the re­sult is, try not to show dis­ap­point­ment...Hug them up af­ter the re­sults, if it's, you know, what­ev­er it is, if it's good ju­bi­la­tion, run­ning, danc­ing, if it's bad, you hug them,” he said.