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I wrote a dissertation on Test Anxiety for a psychology masters. Here's the main factors that you can address: • Your foresight bias, especially given your perf
by james-revisoai 4y ago
I wrote a dissertation on Test Anxiety for a psychology masters. Here's the main factors that you can address:
• Your foresight bias, especially given your performance in homework, is probably holding you back. Most top students drastically underestimate their exam performance, which leads to unnecessary anxiety. Remember your brains trick you this way, and calm your self each study session. Use small quizzes and keep track of top scores to remind yourself of your success and improvement.
• Your brain actually works differently during exams. Do homework problems where you get to read the question for 20 seconds, and then have 3 minutes to put down your thoughts, and then come back the next day to answer it properly. This will train you for faster thinking, basically, and you'll also notice you have good intuition(given the grades you mentioned), which should calm you.
• Eat well (milkshakes if nervous) and exercise in the days preceding the exam. Feel terror at the loss of time when everything is urgent? Do push ups or some other intensive form of exercise, even if you usually go running etc.