Exam periods are among the most difficult periods for young people. Because the exam is not just an exam. It is also necessary to organize the processes before and after the exam. In this case, everyone needs a scenario. In this scenario, the meaning of the exam, the exam process, the expectations from the exam, the person's abilities and the family's hopes must be consistent with each other.
Imagine going to a theater, you are sitting in the hall and watching the stage, each of the actors on the stage has a different role and they are interrupting each other. You see that the performance does not listen to each other. There is no consistency among the players. You gradually see the lack of consistency between players. Even though they are actually professional actors and have great talents, the theater becomes unbearable as long as they act independently of each other. When the actors do not adhere to a predetermined common text and a common scenario, no work of art or a show emerges. In fact, chaos prevails. Neither the audience nor the actors will be happy.
Someone with exam anxiety; Tremors in the hands, sweating, tingling, nausea, heart palpitations, restlessness, unhappiness, insomnia, loss of appetite, fear of failure, attention and concentration problems. He has difficulty managing his body. It's as if their organs are performing differently.
We can look at exam anxiety as the problem of not being able to manage one's attention in the face of stress due to excessive focus on the process before the exam, the dates of the exam, the importance of the exam results for parents and rumors among friends. He becomes so consumed with these voices in his mind and while playing the relevant roles that eventually he cannot hear any voice anymore. A gap has opened between his roles, expectations and hopes.
Although test anxiety appears at different rates in everyone, everyone copes with test anxiety. A person who tries to do well means a lot to us.
1:Exam anxiety can be overcome.
2:Exam anxiety is closely related to the meaning and values of the exam.
3: Although test anxiety seems to be an individual phenomenon, it has a social and cultural aspect.
Regarding the exam; management of concerns It is about stress, self-perception, physical symptoms, reading and understanding.
If our body is a theater stage; We need to make the roles, extras, and game logic consistent and manageable. The players that will help the person the most in exam anxiety are stress management, fear of expectation, effective thoughts, healthy future expectation and autonomy of the individual.
As a result, the individual who minimizes exam anxiety has a successful exam process and can reflect what he has learned on the answer sheet.
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