Exam anxiety is an anxiety that prevents the learned information from being used effectively during the exam, thus causing a decrease in success. It can be felt at the time of the exam, or it can be felt weeks or even months before.
So, how does this anxiety manifest itself? And what are the signs that we are experiencing exam anxiety?
If your hands shake, your heart beats faster, and your breathing frequency increases when you think about the exam, it means your anxiety is active. Or, if you have problems focusing on anything you are doing at the moment, have difficulty understanding the question you read during the exam, or have difficulty concentrating while studying a subject, you may be experiencing test anxiety.
We all experience a situation or event that causes anxiety. When we encounter a problem, we naturally take action to reduce our anxiety. So we run away from that feeling or we fight that feeling. When it comes to exams that affect a person's education and later life, it is not possible for a person not to worry. In addition, if we feel very high anxiety and excitement, our chances of showing the performance we want decrease.
But shouldn't we worry at all? Of course no! In fact, anxiety is a useful emotion. It motivates us and helps us study exam subjects and get high grades. If we do not feel any anxiety or worry, it is not very possible to take action. When we worry, we feel the urge to take action and we take action. So it's healthy to worry. So, what happens when the feeling of anxiety becomes a problem for us?
We can say that when anxiety starts to reduce our performance, that is, when we get a low score in an exam for which we prepared very well due to anxiety. If anxiety does not leave us during the activities we do to take a break from work and relax ourselves, and if your mind remains on the subjects you will work on, it means that anxiety is no longer a helpful element for us, but an emotion that stumbles us. To give another example, feeling high anxiety and leaving the exam site. The person does this behavior to relax, but it is not functional or useful for him. An action caused by anxiety There is meat. Anxiety first slowly rises, peaks, and then if you continue whatever you are doing and do not leave the environment, it will decline.
We all experience a situation when faced with an event. We develop emotions, and these emotions naturally lead us to certain behaviors. This process works the same for all people. In other words, our feelings about the event/event we experience and the behaviors we exhibit at the time of the event are in a chain, interconnected, even if we are not aware of it.
For example, let's say you took an exam, this is an event that is experienced, this event is related to each other. You may notice that you feel anxiety and restlessness as emotions while you are living, these feelings of anxiety and restlessness are disturbing, no one wants to feel anxious and restless, so to get rid of these feelings, we can drink water to relax ourselves, we can read the questions repeatedly, we can take deep breaths, these are also behaviors we exhibit, that is, an event. We develop an emotion towards it and then develop a body reaction and behavior in connection with this emotion.
Do you think it is possible for someone who thinks "What if I get bad grades" to feel happy at that moment? This thought will naturally lead us to anxiety, and the feeling of anxiety will automatically physiologically increase the heartbeat and breathing frequency, and as a result, we will have difficulty reading the questions, we will have problems remembering, and your chances of getting a high score in this table will be delusional. We can say that it is a kind of chain accident.
Lack of anxiety prevents us from getting on the exam marathon path, while very high anxiety brakes us.
In summary, our anxiety is neither our friend nor our enemy. As long as we can manage anxiety wisely, there is no obstacle we cannot overcome!
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