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Right.

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So I told you earlier the one test anxiety strategy does above all others.

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And you've already heard me mention this several times in this class today.

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Practice your test anxiety strategies, tactics, methods and procedures during your entire pre exam

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study period.

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Don't be one of those students that just say, well, during the exam, when I feel anxiety, I'm going

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to try this during the exam.

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The way that you're really able to work on managing test anxiety.

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Is by using the strategies, the techniques.

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During your study period.

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During your practicing period.

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Right.

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So while you're studying right now for the top of the aisles, you're engaging in positive self-talk

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right now.

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Or you're practicing using the palming technique or the differential relaxation techniques right now.

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You have lavender in your pocket right now.

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You're not you're not whipping this stuff out on the exam and trying to figure out how to use it during

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the exam, which is crazy.

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These methods, these strategies, these solutions that I've talked about, the best way they're going

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to work is by practicing them during your study process.

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Well, you can't just read about it and think that on the exam you're going to be able to do it.

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It doesn't work that way.

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Test anxiety strategies work well when you put them into effect at the start of your test preparation,

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not the start of the exam.

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Too many people put in their test anxiety strategies at the start of the exam, and that causes a big

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problem.

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So that this what I'm talking about here is the one strategy that affects all other strategies.

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All of the solutions.

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So how to increase your overall score performance?

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What I'm talking about now is not necessarily anxiety.

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It is something that helps reduce anxiety.

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But what I'm talking about now relates to the difference between the students that do excellent and

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the students that do okay.

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So what differentiates top students?

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Number one, practice exams.

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There is a direct correlation between the amount of practice exams completed and the score that a student

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is able to attain.

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There's a direct correlation between those two things in not just doing practice exams, but doing them

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the right way.

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There's a difference between doing a practice exam and doing a practice exam the right way.

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A big difference.

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It's sort of like what I talked about with number two, not just working hard.

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Top students understand that it's not about working hard.

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It's about working right.

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Is that about taking practice exams is about taking practice exams, right.

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Number three, I talked about this earlier, active versus passive studying.

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I'm going to when I end up uploading this recording into into the course.

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I will put in some extra material that talks about active versus passive, studying self discipline

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and self motivated.

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Those are two big things that differentiate top students.

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They have a lot of self discipline.

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And I've talked to you earlier about the effects of not having discipline, not having discipline,

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cause there's so many problems, not being self motivated causes so many problems.

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And then, of course, this one, everybody knows English level.

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Again, direct correlation between your English level and how well you can perform on the exam.

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There's a great video on YouTube by Dr. Joe Dispenser called How to Reprogram Your Mind.

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This helps a lot of students do well because like I told you for years, so many of you have been programming

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your mind in a certain way.

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You've been learning how to do test anxiety, or you have programmed yourself in a certain way to be

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able to perform on an exam.

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And very often what you have to be able to do is learn how to reprogram your mind.

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And so in this video on YouTube by Dr. Joe Dispenser, you can watch that video and learn more about

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that and how to do it.

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These are a couple of student questions.

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When I studied, I knew it all.

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Then I got on the test and nothing looked familiar.

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What happened?

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Right.

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One or two marathon sessions can give us a false sense of security.

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So for example, what this is talking about is if you are, you know, before the exam, if you're studying

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for 6 hours straight, 8 hours straight, you know, you the material becomes very, very familiar to

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you.

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And very often that gives students a false sense of security before they take the exam.

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And so to avoid this, you want to do shorter, more frequent study sessions.

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Because when you do that, it makes sure that you're able to really test yourself the right kind of

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way.

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Doing long marathon sessions is not always the right way, or it doesn't always prepare you in the right

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way to perform on the exam.

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All right.

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So there are some last minute questions and I will answer those last minute questions.

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I want to thank all of you for joining me today in this lecture on managing your test anxiety.

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I really hope that you learned a lot more about it because this is something that affects your scores

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and you have to be able to learn how to maintain it.

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So thank you very much for joining me.

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And I'm going to take off I'm going to take a few more questions before we sign off.