WRT the student with exam anxiety: I can sympathize, as I have some pretty crippling anxiety (albiet in other areas). However what I have to wonder is this. If

WRT the student with exam anxiety: I can sympathize, as I have some pretty crippling anxiety (albiet in other areas). However what I have to wonder is this. If you've got exam anxiety, what happens when you get your PhD, and your university is pressuring you to publish. "You haven't put out a paper in over a year. We're giving you 2 months to get on that, if you don't, we'll find someone who will". What do you do about your 'paper anxiety' then? It really sucks that you have to deal with this, but the thing is that that's life. If you can't deal with it now, you're not going to be any better dealing with it later.