Pupils will face exams next week as the finals for Higher and National 5 courses take place.

STV News has produced a series of tips videos to help those revising - with guides to associations, breathing, chunking, mind maps, stress management, and failure.

Now here are the eight emotional stages you have to deal with as a test looms.

Hey, it's two whole weeks before the first exam starts. No need to stress yourself. And the sun has come out! It would be a waste to spend your time holed up inside poring over textbooks.

Your friends start talking about revision plans and mind maps, and you've not opened a book yet. Outwardly you're mocking them for their over the top preparation, until the...

This usually happens when you realise you've got more exams to study for than days left until the first one.

Cold sweats and tears over breakfast are common symptoms here.

Charging headlong into the notes you've taken over the entire year, which feel like they've been written by someone else.

You walk around in a daze, incapable of taking anything in and answering questions with mumbled fractions and Austro-Hungarian empire trivia.

As your brain rejects the enormous amount of information you are attempting to consume, the strain begins to tell.

Failing to recall the slightest historical detail or mathematical formula becomes a cause for tantrums and anger.

Try not to take it out on your long-suffering friends and family.

The night before your first test. It seems too late to avoid the oncoming disaster but you still attempt to stuff the last crumbs of information into your fact-addled brain while praying for a miracle.

Walking into the hall to sit the exam, a feeling of zen-like acceptance overcomes you.

You are pleasantly surprised that some of the things you have revised are actually in the paper and you try your best to focus on the bits you know, while crowbarring the rest of your knowledge into whatever questions remain. There's nothing more you can do now.

Doesn't really matter how you did. The fears about the questions you missed and how your clever friend seems to have answered most of them entirely differently melt away as you leave after your final exam.

Enjoy summer (until results day comes).