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playingmybeautifulviolin Ok, this is workable.
You need to practice relaxation techniques; breath control is a good one.
But here are a few things which might help:
1) When you panic, as you are regaining your calm, tell yourself this:
"I actually know
MORE than I think I know, right now.
I CAN do this."
2) When I was studying for the SAT (when it was administered in hieroglyphs, but you could write answers in demotic... 😉), a guide to it said that 60% of the most common errors were all due to a single cause:
Misreading the question!
So:
Read questions carefully,
so you KNOW what is being sought.
3) It's a test, but you can shift your mindset if you realize one thing, abd try one other. You can actually have a lot of fun...! YES, REALLY!
A) Realize...
Consider:
ANY problem you get,
from Kindergarten all the way through
an undergraduate degree,
is a problem you are MEANT to solve.
Not an unsolvable problem,
but a problem which IS SOLVABLE.
In fact,
EVERY problem you see
has been solved by
at least MANY, MANY THOUSANDS
(likely MANY MILLIONS!)
of other students!
So tell yourself
These problems are MEANT to be solved.
These problems ALREADY HAVE been solved by MANY othrr students.
I CAN SOLVE THEM, TOO!
B) Think a little differently:
The problems ARE solvable...so treat each one like a fun puzzle / game!
Think--
What's the way to win this game?
How can I look at this puzzle to solve it?
If you start thinking of EVERY problem as a puzzle or game, that little shift in mindset can make it fun!
