[bellatastixx]

Hi there

I just thought I'd write down my little rant here... they say writing is a form of catharsis. To start with, I hate timed exams. They drive the perfectionist side of me nuts, as I am constantly double checking answers and worrying about filling in the bubbles correctly. I especially dislike it when I don't get to finish a section of the test because it is timed. It sends me off into a mindset that isn't very much fun. I end up just giving up on the hole thing and not answering any of the rest of the questions. Then I get my results back and of the questions I answered: 100% correct. SO I'm not stupid, just terrible at testing. *sigh*

Anyway, I was wondering if any of you guys had test anxiety too?

Thanks for reading
~Julie

[cutebagaddict08]

Yes I understand. In high school and now college whenever I have to take a final I get very anxious. I would be getting a B or A in the class and totally bomb the final-mainly do to worrying. I hate timed tests- I feel like I have to rush to fill in all of the answers and then I draw a 'blank' on all the information, I know I know very well, I usually have to take a few deep breaths or I have learned to distract myself right before the test. (I will bring my ipod and listen to my fave songs.)

Originally Posted by bellatastixx

Hi there

I just thought I'd write down my little rant here... they say writing is a form of catharsis. To start with, I hate timed exams. They drive the perfectionist side of me nuts, as I am constantly double checking answers and worrying about filling in the bubbles correctly. I especially dislike it when I don't get to finish a section of the test because it is timed. It sends me off into a mindset that isn't very much fun. I end up just giving up on the hole thing and not answering any of the rest of the questions. Then I get my results back and of the questions I answered: 100% correct. SO I'm not stupid, just terrible at testing. *sigh*

Anyway, I was wondering if any of you guys had test anxiety too?

Thanks for reading
~Julie

[Umbral_Seraph]

I hate timed exams too. What's the worst though is when it's a really long timed exam; the exam for my EIT certificate was 8 hours long and cost me $125.

I guess really every exam is timed though...

[salukigirl]

The only thing that really gives me anxiety during writing exams are when the prof stands there and tells me how long I have left! Like in Taxonomy he would say "30 minutes left" and it drove me nuts! Or if people start standing up and leaving it makes me kind of nervous bc I feel like "all these other people are done...why am I still writing?!"

As for math.....I just can't do it. This semester I am taking Experimental Design which is just a bunch of stats and I get sooooo anxious during the lab. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I haven't taken stats in years and he just flies through it like I should remember everything.

I like classes that give other ways to get points rather than just exams. I do kinda freak out during exams. It's like I just forget everything. And I have even had professors tell me that they know I'm smarter than what my exam shows. You would think I would have had this stuff figured out by grad school but NOPE!!

Hiya

Yeah I don't like timed exams too. The amount of time you have makes you feel like you have to rush. I have an English Functional skills Exam coming up, It's 40 minutes all together. My teacher told me to spend 25 minutes on each parts. There is a reading and writing part in it. I think that's what it is called . You know what? in my exam even the HANDWRITING has to be perfect. My writing has to be neat and the words can't be a captial in the sentences. I'm going to suffer because I cross out and that and my work is messy. Under the question there are how much marks there are. For example if there was 2 marks, you would put two answers. Maybe try to practise exams before your actual exam. It could help you know how to do the exam. But in the exam just try to relax, breath in big breaths and try your best at answering questions. We're not all experts in exams. Try your best. Then the outcome might be good. If there were errors you made and you can go over the errors and your teacher may help you understand what you did wrong and how to correct your error. We all make mistakes. We're not perfect. We learn from our mistakes.

Julie, I understand. Fill-ins can bring the worst anxiety out in a test taker for sure. Those "what ifs" start coming in. Why torture a mind like that?

Timed tests are ok, but only the ones teachers create for their students, not state/district/nationwide tests. Now those tests are too bothersome to deal with.

"We're not all experts in exams." -Good one, EmoGirl.

[IceCreamKid]

I used to have math anxiety but I got over it. I got over it by reading about it on the internet, talking to one of my math teachers about it (he was a little surprised, I think, at my confession but was very supportive and helpful and later said that he thought math anxiety was common but not everyone would admit to having it); later I developed a sort of generalized anxiety that would come over me right before tests, particularly if there as a lag between entering the room and actually starting the test. This would become even worse if the teacher had many corrections to make to the test before we could even take it; and if the room was very very noisy, my anxiety level would shoot up, too. Again, I told the teacher the noise was upsetting and she very nicely addressed it in a couple of different ways. (hers was not the class that had the lousy mistake riddled tests). Timed tests never bothered me so much. I had the most anxiety in the classes that meant the most to me and/or that were the most difficult. Me before a test Me after a test

[AstroKitty]

All of the tests I take are on a computer in a classroom. They're all multiple choice (HARD multiple choice). I like it when we have tests that let us answer in any order, and let us go back to double check... But sometimes they make us answer them one by one, in order, and once you answer you can't go back to change or double check.. THAT makes me pretty anxious. Plus I really like starting from the last question and working backwards to the first. I hate it when they make us start at #1.