Boys admit crying over exam stress

Around three in ten teenage boys admit they have cried because they are stressed out by exams, according to a poll.

It also suggests around half of young people have felt so anxious before sitting a paper that they thought they could not do it - with girls more likely to feel this way than boys.

The survey of 1,000 16 to 17-year-olds, published by the National Citizen Service (NCS), found 51 per cent of those questioned said they had cried due to exam stress.

A gender breakdown shows 29 per of young men admitted they had felt this way, along with 73 per cent of girls.

In addition, around 48 per cent of the teenagers polled agreed they felt so anxious before an exam that they thought they would be sick.

And 51 per cent said they had felt so anxious before an exam that they thought they could not do it.