No matter how well prepared you are, you\u2019ll always get a bit anxious, a bit stressed, before a big test or an exam. It\u2019s perfectly natural; it\u2019s the \u2018make or break\u2019 moment of all you have been striving for. However, as Lou Holtz once said, oh so wisely, \u201cIt\u2019s not the load that breaks you down, it\u2019s the way you carry it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Without realizing it, we can sometimes sabotage our performance with our attitude towards any main event \u2013 in this case, the event is the exam. If you distance yourself from it though, you will realize that changing minor behavioral patterns can make all the difference in the world. For example:<\/p>\n
Get enough sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, and it means that you should not study during the night, but instead get plenty of sleep before the exam. If you are stressing a lot about not knowing some material, it would be better to wake up earlier and have a look at it once more so that you will be reassured.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t panic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, here you are, just hours away from taking the exam and panic settles. How do you recognize it? \u201cOh my God, I\u2019ve forgotten everything that I\u2019ve learned\u201d! Does this outrageous thought sound familiar?\u00a0 You don\u2019t know what questions you\u2019re going to get, and you fear you have not done enough. Fight that fear. Relax. You have done enough. Panic can only bring more panic, so take a big breath and let it all out.<\/p>\n Improve your nutrition habits. <\/strong><\/p>\n Are you ordering fast food late (sometimes very late) at night? Skipping breakfast? Sometimes even forgetting that you must eat altogether? For some unexplanatory reason, students\u2019 dietary routine changes radically to the worse as closer as they get to an exam. At a time when nutritional energy boosts are very much needed, try putting together a \u2018Exam nutriment program\u2019 in advance, so that you can revisit it when needed and save time on wondering what to eat.<\/p>\n To be still \u2013 do something that you love doing before the exam.<\/p>\n If you love listening to music, do so! If you enjoy watching a TV series in the morning \u2013 do so! Do everything that is making you feel on the top of the world \u2013 because when you are entering an exam while being motivated, there is a 100% guarantee that you are going to nail the exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No matter how well prepared you are, you\u2019ll always get a bit anxious, a bit stressed, before a big test or an exam. It\u2019s perfectly natural; it\u2019s the \u2018make or break\u2019 moment of all you have been striving for. However, as Lou Holtz once said, oh so wisely, \u201cIt\u2019s not the load that breaks you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n