Students in their senior year are facing the first major choice of their lives and are under a lot of pressure and pre-exam tension, which almost everyone has, just to different degrees. Nowadays, some students cannot concentrate on the study itself, but are not satisfied with their poor study status. They try to master all subjects on the one hand, but are worried about the appearance of undesirable results, and even have a premonition that they will definitely fail and worry about imaginary failures.
The high level of inner tension of the candidates can be explained as follows.
A sense of uneasiness exists in life, because existence itself is subject to many uncertainties. For the student, the college entrance exam is a very important event in his or her life that requires concentration for a period of time, and his or her inner pointing [attention] is all about it, so the uneasiness is concentrated and frozen in the pre-examination, advent stage.
In addition, as a 17- or 18-year-old high school student, going to college is similar to undergoing a rite of passage, which is like going through a baptism and later facing the uncertainty of the future as an adult, including making your own decisions and being responsible for yourself. The college entrance exam itself is a test of growth, and this is indeed a pressure for some young people who are not yet mentally ready.
So, in a sense, students facing the pressure of the college entrance exam is also facing the pressure of growth, the tension brought by the college entrance exam is the growth process of confusion, as far as the student body is concerned, the confusion of growth is inevitable, but it happens to individuals with differences.
Factors that cause pre-examination tension.
Limited time For students of any level, the exam means that a certain amount of knowledge will be acquired in a short period of time, extracted, and applied correctly and flexibly.
Facing the unknown When one faces the uncertainty of the future, one must definitely judge whether one has the ability to cope with it, with certainty or with some certainty in order to exchange it for the solidity of the heart.
The study atmosphere of senior year is like a battle coming up, and the practice of “countdown” gives people the feeling of “step by step”, and the efforts, progress and even scores of students around them are also a reference, and the fear of falling behind inevitably leads to nervousness.
In this fight, whether to go to college, college entrance examination scores are the only standard, which makes students, parents, teachers are highly focused on improving the score, everyone is concerned about how to get more points, can not reflect the overall quality of the person’s score in this has become the only criterion.
With the approach of the college entrance examination, the pre-test syndrome is reflected in the students’ psyche in advance. The so-called pre-test syndrome is a confusion of thinking, nervousness and anxiety, and the lighter ones feel that they cannot concentrate, and the heavier ones will be accompanied by some bad psychosomatic feelings, the consequences of which either cannot enter the normal state of examination at all, or seriously affect the candidates’ real level of play.
The causes of pre-examination syndrome are both simple and complex, said its complex is how many people have many kinds of reasons, said its simple is the fundamental reason is only one, is due to high mental tension, psychological burden is too heavy, a moment can not bear the external or internal pressure. For high tension, students should be fully psychologically prepared to face the objective existence and accept that it will accompany you throughout the college entrance examination. As for the nervousness, you may be relatively certain about certain subjects, while for weak subjects may be experienced more obviously.
At this point, the best way is to understand and accept your emotions, because understanding and acceptance are more practical and objective than repressing, rejecting or trying to overcome them. With tension, you can do what you need to do with relative ease. In this way, the nervousness is not really threatening in any sense.
How to reduce the state of pre-exam tension and anxiety, which almost everyone has? The important thing is that it depends on the person’s self-control. How to improve self-control? Positive self-suggestions can have a magical effect, and may be designed for yourself as follows.
I can do it. My scores on several practice exams show that I have the strength to achieve success.
Those test questions have been repeated many times, and I believe I can basically deal with it.
No matter how well I did on the test, I did the best I could.
I was a little nervous, but that level of nervousness didn’t really hinder anything.
Sitting in my seat, I let my body relax a bit, and my emotions relaxed.
If I encounter a difficult problem, I just give up on it for a while. The teacher said that we can’t do them all, just get the ones we know right.
I felt a little nervous, and every student in the room was just like me.