a black-out: coping with the difficulties of the exam
Problems often arise from the way in which "normal" but troublesome difficulties are coped with. For most students taking a test is among those difficulties. How should you cope with the situation?
Do you make a realistic appraisal of the difficulty of the exam and of your own capacities? Do you bear these thoughts in mind when you are preparing for a test? Or do you let your anxious fantasies about that difficult test, that you can't pass anyway, run away with you without correcting them?
If the latter is the case, you will need to change your "psychological" approach to the test drastically. That really is the way to turn a difficult test into a problem. Not because of the test itself, but because of the way you cope wit it! better way of coping with it.
Is that is clear to you?

  • I think something like "that is simply the way I am, it cannot be helped,"

  • I want to continue on black-outs