Mar

20

Test anxiety effects

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Heart beating, sweating, nervous, cannot concentrate, easily distracted, cannot think clearly?

Having a test soon? ;-)

Back in ancient times when we were threated by all kinds of dangers, from wild animals wanting us for a snack to natural disasters, these were healthy reactions.

Stress.

The body prepared for flight or fight.

All body parts not needed immediately were put on standby.

Including the brain!!

Hardly very good if you like to prepare for a critical exam.

So … you need to take control again.

Controlling the effects of test anxiety.

Feb

17

Problems with test anxiety?

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Never skip a test!

No matter how much test anxiety you have!!

The most dreaded exam in my engineering studies was Mechanics part 3. Usually about 80% failed in the first attempt.

So everybody was very tense when it came up and many people didn’t even bother to come. I went.

And it turned out to be the easiest test for about a decade.

In fact so easy I got suspicious and had to check very carefully that there were no hidden traps.

So I can claim that I am one of the few with the higheest grade in Mechanics 3. :-)

Naturally the exam went back to it’s normal difficulty after this one time…

Morale: Never skip a test. Worst case you fail but learn something, and you may even pass without actually deserving it. But nobody who sees your grade will know it!

More tips on handling problems with test anxiety.