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How to stop stressing about an exam?
So I know I passed the exam but definitely not with a high mark, I hate talking about exams with my friends after we’re done because we put different answers. However I’ve checked the answers I’ve put on the exams through the professors lectures and my answers were wrong. Now I’m stressing out because I know my mark will drop but I don’t want it to drop more than 10% the professor said she would never bell curve. The exam had so many short answers worth 5 marks and 10 marks I know I got two 5 mark questions wrong, because one of them I only gave one answer when I should’ve at least put 3, but I couldn’t figure it out. the 10 marked ones I answered it the best I can but I feel like I should’ve put more. There was even some multiple choice worth 5 marks and I think I got one multiple choice wrong because now that I’m thinking back and after my friend said a different answer I feel like hers is right. So that’s already 15 marks gone. The exam is out of 43 and worth 40% some multiple choice were worth 1-3 marks I think I got those ones right. I know I passed but I can’t stop stressing I have two more exams left for different classes and I can’t even focus on them because I’m stressing about this exam that I’ve already done any tips? My sister was saying how at her school when teachers put short answers worth 5-10 marks most people in her class failed which is giving me even more anxiety. I wish I had more time to study for this exam but literally I had another exam the day before, I had two assignments and a quiz to complete the week before including one for the class I just did the exam for. So technically I really only had maybe two days to study for this exam
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I have the ability to look up the past and if there are past questions for the person posting although that is done by the advicenator site, and I have no idea who you are, you are still anonymous as I am.
What I see is that I answered the most recent one about parents controlling your money and also another about thinking you had a disorder since you are extremely fearful. Based on your other question, I am starting to see a pattern. You have the stress in each case and I believe it is due to fear, an unnatural fear or worry. You have worried about bad things happening to you, and I'll bet now that it is fear that caused you to not stand up to your parents, you are afraid of them so whatever Mom asked, you did, including handing over your debit card. Now you can't let go of how you feel about not having understood some of the questions and the lower but passing grade. Are you seeing how you are allowing worry or fear to run your life? Fear is an emotion. And emotions are created by our thoughts and experiences. YOu are an adult dear, you need to start trying to figure out what to do instead of just letting your thoughts run wild and cause you to feel badly, upset or defeated. Are you afraid the same thing will happen on the next test, where you might mess up again on the questions you didn't get right? Do you even know, can you explain to me if you were sitting in front of me, what the purpose of a test is in education? If you don't know, how can you find out? What ever are you thinking, I hope you decided on the easiest and faster avenue, go to the internet. I already know the answer and want you to know that it can be found. So I put in this phrase for a search 'Purpose of a test in education' and up comes the following:
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So you see that for you, a test is simply to show what you have learned and what you struggle with. That way, if you don't know and guess, or don't understand a question, the test will show it. IF all the studenta had the same troubles and same lower grades, then it reflects back on the teacher and how they are not doing a good job of teaching but you already know that is not the case.
So when you don't understand something in class while the teacher is talking and need clarification to understand, what should a student do? Its pretty simple. YOu know this one . . . you ask the teacher. I'll bet that for each time one student asks a question of the teacher, that a handful of others also didn't understand but were to scared to ask because they were worried what others would think of them if they asked. I know because I was shy in school and with social anxiety, it was even harder to ask for help. However in HS, I was placed in a slow learners class for Algebra. The entire class was made up of kids who struggled with it. No one ever asked the teacher. When I couldn't understand a question or how to get the answer while we were studying in class, I got up and went to the teachers desk and asked him. The poor man was patient and tried to reword it at least three different ways and asked if I now understood and I still didn't. I felt bad for him that no matter what he tried, I didn't get, and I still dont get that stuff today, decades later. But it didn't hold me back from enjoying life. I discovered I had strengths in other areas and that was good enough for me.
So next time you are doing a test, and you don't understand the question,, you know teacher can't lead you to the correct answer, but if you don't understand the question, its a given you will get it wrong. If you are pretty sure but not totally, like you wouldn't bet your life on it, so if you lose you truly are put to death, if there is such a question, don't make your best guess as to what it means. FOr many, our minds think and reason differently and a good example is some of the funny stuff posted on Facebook of kids wrong but correct answers. I mean they didn't answer as they were supposed to but their creative answer was not wrong. Example: Where was the Declaration of Independance signed? The kid didn't answer with the location, like the city or state but answered, 'at the bottom'. And that is true, it was signed at the bottom. For that kid, the question would have had to be At what location was the Declaration of Independance signed? Some minds will perceive a question one way while others, a different way. There is nothing wrong with that, No two people are going to be exactly alike in how they understand a question, especially when something is implied as in the first question or explicated spelled out as I offered.
So for any other tests ever in your lifetime, when you don't understand the question, what are you going to do? Make your best guess, or ask the teacher to reword the question or explain the question. It would be okay to ask if it was one total answer of should it be in three parts. I'll bet if u did that you would have done better.
As for your fears, I suggest you see a psychologist who is trained in CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, its non medicinal and targets the source of your issues, your thoughts and helps you to overcome whatever problems you have by simply correcting how you think. I highly recommend this. As a college student, even though an adult, you still qualify to be on parents insurance simply because you are in school. If you quit or graduate, you can no longer be covered, Check with insurance is psychologists are covered and if so, find one who is trained in CBT.
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