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noun

  • Mental or emotional strain and pressure arising from the demands and expectations associated with school, learning, and educational performance.

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"There are so many things students face - there is academic stress, there are financial needs, they have to pay their rent," he said.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2025

After six weeks, the students who hadn’t worked out showed symptoms of fairly serious depression, which had come on shockingly fast, and presumably from their academic stress.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2022

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Possible Synonyms

  • scholastic pressure
  • the student grind
  • educational strain
  • performance anxiety
  • study-related anxiety

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other words

  • coasting through school
  • educational well-being
  • easy A
  • academic confidence
  • scholastic ease

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