Less Test Anxiety and Improved Exam Scores in 10 Minutes
Certifications and the tests that accompany them can be stressful. If there was a quick, ethical way of increasing your test scores while reducing anxiety would you take it? – You should do! Research into test anxiety, its impact on test performance, and strategies for intervention that were published in Science, 2011 offer some valuable tools for boosting performance. It turns out there is a 10 minute exercise that has been found to significantly boost performance. Here is an excerpt from the research paper: “Two laboratory and two randomized field experiments tested a writing intervention exercise designed to improve students’ scores on high stakes exams… The intervention, a brief expressive writing assignment that occurred immediately before taking an important test, […]
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