Mental Health for High Achievers in IP
30 Nov 2025, 00:00 Z
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Q: What does Mental Health for High Achievers in IP cover?
A: A science-backed survival guide for IP students who push hard yet risk burning out.
Research on students in high-achieving schools suggests they can face elevated stress and mental-health risks when academic pressure, perfectionism and chronic sleep loss stack up.
This post gives you a three-part toolkit:
- a burnout-signs checklist,
- hard numbers on sleep and cognitive function, and
- word-for-word growth-mindset scripts you can deploy before the next problem set.
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Status: Refreshed 2026-01-26 — MOE parenting resources (press release), MOE Student Well-Being Framework (Schoolbag), HealthHub sleep duration guidance. Next scheduled review: Apr 2026.
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Studies tracking young adults report that higher grades often co-exist with later bedtimes and shorter sleep, hinting at a trade-off between output and wellbeing.
In one Singapore secondary-school study, baseline weekday time-in-bed averaged 6 h 37 min and actigraphy-based total sleep time averaged 5 h 48 min, highlighting how quickly sleep debt can build during term time.
The hidden cognitive tax
A 2023 systematic review of longitudinal studies confirmed that short sleep predicts slower information-processing speed and lower GPA, even after controlling for socio-economic status.
Neuro-behavioural research further shows total sleep deprivation can
