Overcome Test Anxiety Video

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Not sure about the application of these ideas. "Being prepared initially" is something someone cannot possibly know they've done until they have seen the questions in an exam. It is practically impossible to know everything about a subject on a course, therefore someone can only know whether they've prepared 'enough' once they have sat the exam. Secondly, it's good advice to "put negative thoughts out of your head" but the very nature of an anxiety state is that it is often fed by 'uncontrollable& #39; thoughts. A google scholar search will return a number of studies showing that the very act of trying not to think about something can actually increase the number and frequency of thoughts about that very thing. Great advice to move on to other questions and come back to the one's you're unsure about! I know you're trying to help with this video so I just wanted to give you feedback that viewers may need deeper explanation and gu

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How to Overcome Test Anxiety

Male: What is test anxiety, and how can I overcome this? Amanda Medders: It’s normal for people to get nervous prior to a test or a quiz or big exam but getting nervous to the point where it’s affecting your performance on a test is test anxiety. This can be a problem because even though you prepared for a test, you may not perform to the best of your ability. A couple of things that you can do to help avoid the situation are to be prepared initially. Be confident in what you’ve study. Get to a point where you are able to answer the questions automatically. This way you can be confident going into the test. Another thing you want to do is often times if you have an experience as much success on test, it’s very easy to walk into a test than think I’m not going to do well on this. There’s no way I can do this, math is totally not my subject. How am I going to do this six page exam and that can be very intimidating. And they sound a little bit silly, but instead I want you to erase any negative talk that you have before you walk into that exam now. Once you sit down, I want you to think to yourself have some sort of information that you can say I know I studied, I know I know this material. I know that I’m going to do as a well as I can do and make sure that you keep that positive talk during the exam. Another thing that can cause anxiety is when you first look at the exam, maybe the first question or two happen to be the ones that you don’t know right away and then you get that feeling “oh gosh I don’t know the material, I knew I wasn’t going to do both.” Instead don’t worry about it. Circle those question, skip them, go to a section that’s easier for you that you know the questions and then after you’ve gotten those down go back to the ones that you had difficulty on initially. Another thing that student say can cause anxiety for them is the speed at which all of the other students in the classroom finished their exam. Students are going to finish exams at different time. Some people work faster, some people that maybe their strength but you need to make sure that you’re blocking out all of the things that are going on around you. So sometimes when a student maybe has all ready taking their paper up 30 minutes into the exam and you’re starting to think “oh my goodness, I’ve only answer 10 questions’ and you starting to get that panic feeling. Try to zoom them out. If that is the case you may want to try to see if on exam day maybe you can position your desk somewhere where you’re not meant to high traffic area that way you don’t have a lot of other students walking pass through your desk to turn on papers, use the restroom or do whatever it is that they’re doing after they finish. Maybe you could try sitting and in that corner or some where you’re going to be a little bit more excluded.

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Male: What is test anxiety, and how can I overcome this?

Amanda Medders: It’s normal for people to get nervous prior to a test or a quiz or big exam but getting nervous to the point where it’s affecting your performance on a test is test anxiety. This can be a problem because even though you prepared for a test, you may not perform to the best of your ability.

A couple of things that you can do to help avoid the situation are to be prepared initially. Be confident in what you’ve study. Get to a point where you are able to answer the questions automatically. This way you can be confident going into the test.

Another thing you want to do is often times if you have an experience as much success on test, it’s very easy to walk into a test than think I’m not going to do well on this. There’s no way I can do this, math is totally not my subject. How am I going to do this six page exam and that can be very intimidating. And they sound a little bit silly, but instead I want you to erase any negative talk that you have before you walk into that exam now.

Once you sit down, I want you to think to yourself have some sort of information that you can say I know I studied, I know I know this material. I know that I’m going to do as a well as I can do and make sure that you keep that positive talk during the exam. Another thing that can cause anxiety is when you first look at the exam, maybe the first question or two happen to be the ones that you don’t know right away and then you get that feeling “oh gosh I don’t know the material, I knew I wasn’t going to do both.” Instead don’t worry about it. Circle those question, skip them, go to a section that’s easier for you that you know the questions and then after you’ve gotten those down go back to the ones that you had difficulty on initially.

Another thing that student say can cause anxiety for them is the speed at which all of the other students in the classroom finished their exam. Students are going to finish exams at different time. Some people work faster, some people that maybe their strength but you need to make sure that you’re blocking out all of the things that are going on around you. So sometimes when a student maybe has all ready taking their paper up 30 minutes into the exam and you’re starting to think “oh my goodness, I’ve only answer 10 questions’ and you starting to get that panic feeling. Try to zoom them out. If that is the case you may want to try to see if on exam day maybe you can position your desk somewhere where you’re not meant to high traffic area that way you don’t have a lot of other students walking pass through your desk to turn on papers, use the restroom or do whatever it is that they’re doing after they finish. Maybe you could try sitting and in that corner or some where you’re going to be a little bit more excluded.

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