If you regularly become unreasonably nervous before and during an important exam, you may have exam anxiety. Test anxiety brings indicators that often interfere with test performance and cause significant distress. These symptoms include increased heart rate, digestive problems ,jittery feelings, sweating, shaking, and shallow breathing.
There are countless ways you can decrease test anxiety before your next exam. Making a study plan, getting adequate rest, and finding healthy ways to cope with stress can all be accommodating in reducing test anxiety. But to find long-term reprieve for test anxiety, you need to deal with the source of the anxiety itself.
Test anxiety is a type of fear. Test anxiety disturbs many people of all ages and acumen, and its indicators are ingrained in your biological “fight or flight” response. For whatever reason, your mind likely observes an upcoming exam as a hazard and then recruits a cascade of hormones that prepare the body for quick act in the face of this threat. When you think about an vital test, what are you afraid of? The obvious answer being afraid of failing or accomplishment badly is often just the surface level fear. Why does your unconscious mind perceive the test as a risk worthy of your fear?
We must prepare ourselves to battle testing anxiety, so we don’t find ourselves victimizing our results. We must prepare to for test that are coming weeks ahead of time, so we don’t have anymore questions for our mind.
