Test Anxiety

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During my third year of high school, I faced an enormous challenge, which was having to deal with test anxiety. Prior to high school, I had always felt nervous about exams of any kind, especially, SAT, ACT, AP exams, and CAASPP test. However, in high school, the stakes became higher and test scores had a bigger impact, especially, since Junior Year was a tough year that require highly selective skills. Given that, this was a very frustrating challenge because I was always a very strong student with high grades and was efficient on most assignments. However, when it came time for the test of chemistry, I choked and felt paralyzed, like I felt that I couldn't think properly. During this time, I absolutely had to find a solution to this problem, since my future depended on it. As a result, my …show more content…

As the day of my chemistry exam came closer, I started to get nervous and be frustrated whether I was going to fail or pass my chemistry exam. As a result, the day came to take my chemistry exam, I knew that this was the moment where I had to show my knowledge and skills to answer the questions, but there was some stops where I did get confuse towards knowing how to calculate the answer to the question or even sometimes where I didn't understand what the question was saying, due to my anxiety. Through this experience I learned that pushing yourself through hard work and by believing in yourself would help you have a successful mindset. This challenge is significant to me because it helped me understand the hard work it takes to get to a point where you want to be, in which I realized that "It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it." The quote that I always use when it comes through facing challenges: "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur

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