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The Journal of Exam Jitters
Author: Elea Almazora  | Posted: 09-05-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 6 | Rating: (151)  (?) 
It's a well known fact that right after being an irresponsible brat who doesn't care for his or her lessons and being a person who as actual learning difficulties and disabilities, being incredibly, superfluously nervous right before and during an exam is the most likely cause of failing grades. It's not really a surprise, actually. Confidence is pretty much a good way of keeping your eye on success. If you're nervous, and keep thinking that you fail, you will inevitably fail. But if you think positive and push your worries aside, it will be much easier to concentrate on your exams. After all, nothing is likely more distracting than a mantra of “Oh god, oh god, did we take this up? What if I forgot to read up on something? Wait, I DID forget to review it! Oh no, I'll fail and my life is ruined! I won't get that scholarship and I'll end up working in Taco Bell as a janitor until I have grandchildren.”
Of course that would not help. Thinking that would only reinforce the failure and make it stronger and this should be said now: you must never, under any circumstances, let the examination jitters win. There are no ifs or buts about this one; if you really want to pass your exam, you must not let the fear of failure get the better of you because they only inspire mistakes. And the best way to build confidence in order to avoid distraction due to nervousness is this: study from the very beginning, and keep your notes wickedly organized.
The advise may sound like it's common sense, but you actually would not believe how many students fail to do this. Cramming seems to be a favored method of preparing for examinations, and sometimes it does work for certain people because their short-term memories have proven themselves more reliable than their long-term memories. Cramming is actually fine. But the problem with cramming is that there is a greater risk of you not reviewing particular details, or at the least not reviewing all the details well enough. The knowledge that you may actually have missed something when trying to recall past lessons is, of course, conducive to developing the jitters. So cramming, while useful to some people, may very well be more effective if it were backed up by preliminary studying and reading before the exam season starts. By starting to review from the beginning of the course, students will be less likely to miss anything, and would have less jitters to worry about.
Keeping organized notes is, of course also very useful in making sure that few details have been missed. During the course of classes and discussions, it is quite possible that notes will become frenzied because of all the ideas and facts flying about over everyone's heads, and often textbooks lack the contexts and explanations offered by the teacher. Obviously, the notes and the facts presented by the books need to be arranged in such a way that they would be neat and cohesive enough to be easily understandable for review purposes. Furthermore, an added benefit to taking some time to fix and organize your notes would be the fact that while organizing everything that you have written down and have read, you are essentially reviewing the information anyway and visually structuring them so that they would make sense to you. By doing this, the subject matter will be much easier to understand and in effect would diminish the jitters because the understanding of a lesson means that you are likely to remember it come examination day.
Those things are only two of the ways by which you can make sure that your nerves on examination day will not by any means affect your performance. There are other reasons, after all, for being so jittery right before the papers are handed for you to answer. Preparing well for the exam is a good way to start. Other things like positive thinking, meditation, and possibly the anti-stress effect of herbal teas may do the trick can come afterward if knowing that you've studied the heck out of your brain may come afterwards.
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