[JoeS21]

Anyone else have the problem of test anxiety worsening when you check your answers and find that you got wrong answers where you least expected?

What can be done about this?

Do you NOT even want to know what your score was anymore? Are you afraid of practicing or afraid of checking your answers because it worsens your performance anxiety-wise?

[CANDC]

Are you talking about school tests or are you talking about the psychological quizzes that you can find on this site?
If it is school, the only thing that helps me is adequate preparation reading the course material on time and attending lectures. I also set aside a big pocket of time for review.
Most important for me is getting adequate sleep and eating a healthy low carb high protein meal a couple hours before the test.
If I do all that I try the best I can and accept the outcome.

[JoeS21]

Originally Posted by CANDC

Are you talking about school tests or are you talking about the psychological quizzes that you can find on this site?
If it is school, the only thing that helps me is adequate preparation reading the course material on time and attending lectures. I also set aside a big pocket of time for review.
Most important for me is getting adequate sleep and eating a healthy low carb high protein meal a couple hours before the test.
If I do all that I try the best I can and accept the outcome.

To answer your question, it's a high-stakes standardized test for graduate school.

The silliest things are bothering me that do NOT normally bug me at all:
Will I have to sit next to someone who wears perfume which I'm allergic to?
I'm worried I'll get a question I do NOT know. (My conscious mind is saying, ¨So what?¨ I don't know why that's bothering me.)
etc. etc.

I'm normally not like this.

[CANDC]

Joe,
What I do is hypothesize another reality where I do not pass the test and I see the world does not explode. I schedule the test again.
I took one of those. They have guides you can buy with test questions to build your confidence. They have GRE test questions online. Familiarity builds confidence and diffuses anxiety.