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10 Things to Do Before a Test

10 Things to do before a test

You know that old familiar feeling: your heart pounds, your breath accelerates, and forget butterflies – you’ve got bald eagles barreling around your insides! There must be a test in the near future.

There are 10 things you can do before a test to help alleviate test anxiety and absorb the information needed to achieve your target score. The ability to remain calm and centered, in the midst of testing jitters, is equally important as accessing the brilliant knowledge stored in your brain.  If you practice these “10 Things To Do Before A Test,” you’ll begin to see your test scores rise.

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How To Beat Test Anxiety

How To Beat Test Anxiety

With competition in the academic environment on the rise, the expectations that parents have of their children have also risen. Oftentimes the pressure that a student feels manifests itself as test anxiety, wherein even though a student has prepared for a subject, and does very well in the practice rounds, he totally freezes up when he gets to the actual test.

Because test anxiety is largely psychological, usually caused by the stress that parents and students themselves cause, which feeds back into itself, many of the symptoms of test anxiety can be “trained” away. This article highlights some of the steps that can be taken. Continue reading →