test anxiety

[cutiepie1497]

I posted this at PW but they are a bunch of jerks about it.....so, i knew to post it here....

My teachers all know that I am NOT a test taker. And I knew the history material like I know the back of my hand this morning, studied from 7-10 and from 3:30-5:30 am and from 7:15-8:00 (in mrs. snowdens room)....and KNEW it! The state made the benchmark over the summer, and what they made it reach, none of the teachers have even got there yet so mrs. snowden "taught to the test"....and thats fine, we got the notes and stuff. BUT we knew maybe 1/2 or 2/3 of what was on it, the rest we had never heard of.

So, everyone finished the 60 questions test in like 30 minutes. I "dumped" on the paper, like you couldnt see anything but my handwriting throughout the entire exam......

Well, I saw the questions I never heard of and my brain like shut down completely. So they all left and I was in there taking the dang test until the beginning of 3rd period (i have history first). Mrs. Snowden tried taalking me through it, and I got through about 3 before I hit another road block and from that point on, I had no use of my brain....and I am serious. She tried relaxing me by just chatting with me.....that didnt work.....I was bright red and I was shaking really bad and my heart was racing and I was holding my head in my hand....it scared me that bad.

Anyways, long story short.....

how the heck do I get past this?! Public speaking is one thing, but test anxiety?! dang....I excell in homework and classwork whch keeps my grades up, and projects... quizzes, pop quizzes, tests not my thing.

I hate that this happens with the nicest teacher....she told me that was fine and I could stay in there for 3 hours if needed (hah, felt like 3 hours today) and she is really sweet about it, but ugh......its like totally embarressing. I found out if I cant talk outloud if i just write all over the exam about everything it helps some, but talking outloud helps me the most, but it would disturb the rest of the class.....I may just sit in the floor at the back of the classroom so I can talk aloud (Mrs. Snowden said to sit back by her because she doesnt mind hearing me talk at all...I just dont want to take anyones seat)

[Spunky]

Cutiepie,

You are not alone in this condition more people than

you think suffer from it.

Including my youngest troll, for the first few years in

school teachers always sent me bad reports.

My child would breeze through much of the problems

and then hit one that simply did not compute and she

would just freeze up, to her teachers she was obviously

day dreaming or being obstinent!

Well knowing my child as I do I felt this was extremely out

character for her and I decided to attend her class to see

for myself. Sure enough I saw her freeze up, the teacher

looked at me like "I told You so", I simply walked over to

my daughter and said skip that question and go on to the next,

I got no response she started sweating like she was having

an anxiety attack went flush in the face and all. Ofcourse I

removed her from class and when she was relaxed again

this time I had the teacher test her again this time covering

up that one question. Odd request right! The teacher thought

so too also telling me she will get that missed question marked

as wrong!

I handed the test to my daughter and she breezed through

it with ease even the ones that followed the one I had her skip.

She scored among the highest on the test. I can't explain what

made me try such a method but the result was amazing!

I then sent her to be tested because it was evident that we still

had to solve the initial problem. They informed me that yes she

has a condition in which her processing of information is not of

the norm.Since then she has attented 3 sessions a week with a

specialist and has made great strides taking tests.

My advise to you would be to seek out help, go to your counselor

at school and tell her of your experience!

I will try to find my daughters report when she was tested to get

the name of the condition they listed her under for you, it may

take me a day or two as it was over 3 years ago and I'm a pack rat

and will have to search many of boxes!

God Bless!

[cutiepie1497]

sounds like me....only this happens always in history, thats usually it, unless its like a benchmark but its still usually only history. I get bright red (arms, hands, face, neck, etc) start sweating, my heart races, I get nauesous and dizzy and like just sit there looking at my desk staring at it....its horrible, and I dont know why it happens, but its always when I see a question that it is something I havent seen before.....or if the wording is totally off, my brain shuts down totally and the panic/anxiety attack hits me head on....I hate doing that, in fact, I was made fun of for it today, nice.