subject: How To Get Victory Over Exam Anxiety [print this page] Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive. somatic. emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, fear, or worry. There are times when anxiety can even be associated with feeling claustrophobic an even a tightness in the chest.
Feeling nervous before an exam? Wondering if you will be able to finish answering all the questions on the final exam? Wondering if you have prepared well enough or the exam? A certain amount of nervous tension can help you perform better and exceed our ability. But in this world, everything that done in overboard, also brings disadvantages to us, so does the tension.
Too much of anxiety will make you not able to think, as a result, you may not be able to recall back what you have studied, then it leads to, panic, and you will perform bad.
There are some ways to help you alleviate your anxiety:
Before exam
1. Do not do revision at the last minutes, because it may lead to anxious.
2. Try to establish a pattern of revision which give you enough time to relax.
3. Make sure you bring what you need to the exam hall.
4. Depart earlier to the exam hall.
During exam
1. Take a deep breath in and deep breath out, to make you feel more relax.
2. Before the exam start, you may read through the exam questions, so plan your time and decide on what method do you want to use to solve the questions. Jot down your answer on a piece of paper if the idea about the question come to your head.
3. Figure how much time you need to spend on the questions.
4. If you do not know how to solve the answer, straight away jump down to another one, do not stop at this point thinking how to solve it, cause it will waste much of your time, and it may result in the fact that you do not have enough time to spend on other questions. This will make you feel panic and do some careless mistake on the other questions.
5. Jot down the formula which you think you may forget first, before you start.
6. Focus your attention on positive thought, such as I can do this!.
The steps stated above may help you to overcome your exam anxiety. Remember to relax!!
4. If you do not know how to solve the question, straight away jump down to another one, do not keep stop at there thinking how to solve it, cause it will waste much of your time, and it may result in you do not have enough time to spend on other questions. This will make you feel panic and do some careless mistake on the other questions.
5. Jot down the formulae which you think you may forget first, before you start.
6. Focus your mind on positive thought, such as I can do this!.
The steps stated above may help you to overcome your exam anxiety
