Every student is tasked to attend class and learn. Right?
An exam determines their performance in school and is one of their challenges.
After sleepless nights of reviewing lectures, answering sample questions and extensive studying, many students tend to freak out at the big day of their exam.
Nervousness and anxiety are common for students on exam day. It’s perfectly fine. Too much anxiety and stress can result to low test performance and poor concentration.
This feeling is generally called test anxiety.
Test Anxiety
It is characterized as an intense feeling of dread and worry before, during and after the exam.
Test anxiety can cause impaired cognitive function (thinking), which can cause mental blackouts that results to poor test performance.
What does it imply? It means that during a test, you can’t think well and you’re likely to forget what you studied!
Test anxiety brings headaches, muscle spasm or stomach aches in students. Some may feel heart palpitations, sweaty and shaky hands and even nausea.
Signs and Symptoms of Test Anxiety
Before taking a test, you often find yourself…
- Distracted and reluctant to start studying.
- Having a hard time getting prepared for review
- Lacking focus and concentration
- Full of negative thoughts
- Low in self-esteem
While taking the test, you see yourself…
- Doodling on your test paper.
- Having trouble understanding general instructions and questions.
- Feeling light headed, uncomfortable and anxious.
- Wishing you were in another place
- Day dreaming
After taking the test, you can…
- Remember the correct answer or information you couldn’t recall during the exam.
- Compare you grade in the exam to your previous tests
You can overcome any anxiety by performing EFT tapping or Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Relieving stress and test anxiety is possible by learning tapping therapy. Get ready to overcome your test anxiety by reading the EFT manual to help you overcome test anxiety.