I guess when people around you expect you to do well, you do feel a lot more stressed than others who are not expected to do well. Say you got a 75% whereas people expect you to get 90%. People will just criticise you to the bottom. Well that's happening to me at the moment. I did a fairly sloppy job (in my own standards) in my probability test, and now... I am feeling the need to study more on maths.
I guess the best way to keep yourself up is to ignore those (which is fairly hard) criticism and try to work my way out.
