Exam anxiety

Many students experience worry, nervousness and anxiety in connection with exams and other examination tasks.

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For most people, these emotions are manageable. The nervousness during an exam often settles after a while, and you can find a focus that allows you to get on with the tasks. Some people may experience strong anxiety that doesn’t subside and affects their performance.

This material provides you with exam anxiety tools, to practise dealing with anxiety in a less interfering way.

Explanation model

This model shows a way to understand what happens when we experience exam anxiety


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