1 You should learn to know yourself.
When processing information, our brains have two ideas at the same time, one is to understand the information, and the other is to make a quick evaluation, while the latter is often ignored. For example, if you watch this program, you will quickly evaluate it according to the content: "I am a student, and the college entrance examination is coming soon. I want to continue studying." Or "I don't need the college entrance examination, it has nothing to do with me, so I don't watch it." These ideas are quick and short-lived If you don't take the initiative to recall, you may not even know that you have made this evaluation. But it is this automatic thinking that will determine your next action.
Many people with test anxiety will have such automatic thinking: what should I do if I fail in the exam? This is a negative assumption, thinking about the worst, regardless of whether it is reasonable, thinking according to your own thinking, and then being led to anxiety by this thinking.
Now I suggest you stop, capture your automatic thinking, and then learn to ask yourself: Is this idea reasonable? What are the chances of it appearing? What's the worst case scenario? If it happens, can I handle it?
Worry can be roughly divided into two kinds: one is irrelevant and the other is powerless. If it is something that can be solved by hard work, it is better to try to solve it than to worry; If you try and you can't solve it, then no matter how hard you try, it's just a waste of effort. On this basis, there is nothing to worry about.
Try to imagine success.
People who are anxious about exams, when they see people around them burying their heads in books in the examination room, can easily cause their panic and anxiety, and they can't help falling into paranoia, such as what to do if they fail in the exam, what to do if the answer sheet is wrongly painted, what to do if they forget to write their name, and so on. This will only waste more emotions and energy.
A person always thinks that he can't do well, and he may end up really bad because of the influence of self-testimony prediction. Here, I suggest that you can try a successful imagination exercise. Simply put, you imagine that you have successfully achieved your goal, abandon the idea of "I can't do it" and constantly make positive self-suggestion.
Experiments show that when a person often imagines happy things, his nervous system will habitually put you in a happy state.
The more vivid and concrete the imagination, the more detailed and realistic the better. Of course, imagination must be positive. For example, you can imagine: I slept well the night before the exam, had a delicious breakfast in the morning, and the road to the examination room was smooth. I handed out the paper, wrote down my name and began to answer the questions seriously. I found that I could do all the problems by myself. After answering the questions, I carefully checked and waited for the papers to be handed in. If necessary, you can also imagine some questions, of course, it is best that you can do them, so that you can practice your relaxed state during the exam.
Excessive test anxiety before the exam will affect the ability of candidates. The advantage of successful imagination exercise is that it can help the brain adapt to the atmosphere and environment of the examination room in advance. In addition, because your brain is imagining a successful exam, you naturally have no time to think about other things, so you have no time to worry about anxiety. You know, negative thoughts will have a great negative effect on people, while positive self-suggestion can stimulate their potential.