With a week to go before the exam, it’s time to adjust your physical and mental state to prepare for the field. So how to adjust your physical and mental state in such a short period of time before the exam, in order to play properly in the exam?
First, change your perception and attitude.
How you think about the college entrance examination, you will encounter what kind of college entrance examination. Many students describe the college entrance exam as scary and stressful, and an ordinary June is called “Black June” because of the college entrance exam. So, if you think of the college entrance exam as such, you must be very stressed, nervous, scared, and not confident when you arrive at the examination hall. It is understandable that students have such thoughts. After all, the college entrance examination is a very competitive examination, and society, families and schools have given a lot of meaning and value to the college entrance examination, and these meanings and values are very heavy. Students look at the college entrance examination with these heavy meanings and values, and their mood will become heavy.
So what is the college entrance examination? In psychology, the college entrance examination is an intelligence test. It is a test that gives everyone a relatively fair chance to choose. It is by no means the ultimate goal in life, but just a milestone, a fork in the road, an experience for you. During this experience, you will grow. From this perspective, we see the college entrance examination as an experience in life, a landscape in the journey of life, rather than seeing it as a log bridge, or an event that determines the success or failure of a lifetime, then we face the pressure of the college entrance examination, will be much less, the feeling of tension will be much less.
It is important to set the right mindset. Wang Jisheng, a researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that the top four factors were: the first role of the mindset in the exam, the second role of the mindset before the exam, the third role of the study method in the exam, and the fourth role of the study base in the exam. The college entrance examination is tested, in addition to the hard-earned knowledge and skills, and the students’ own mindset. If students master the level of knowledge and use knowledge to solve problems level is the basis of success in the college entrance examination, is the hardware of success in the college entrance examination, then students in the examination, the examination in the level of mind adjustment and play degree is the software of success in the college entrance examination, play a regulatory role. Adjusted well, you will play normal, or even play beyond the normal; adjustment is not good, is also an asset in your life growth process.
Second, moderate anxiety, relax.
Facing the college entrance examination, students will appear different levels of anxiety. Some students reflect that they are not nervous before the exam, lack of motivation, some students reflect that they will be nervous to the brain blank, panic and sweating. Of course most students will be too nervous. According to scientific research, the relationship between work efficiency and anxiety level is an “inverted U curve”, that is, too low anxiety level and too high anxiety level will lead to a decline in efficiency. Therefore, maintaining a moderate level of anxiety and relaxing your mind and body can help improve the efficiency of your brain.
Students who do not get nervous before the exam can take the following three measures.
First, pay attention to moderate rest, recreation and exercise.
Second, to exchange the form of the next review, to avoid the monotonous mechanical stimulation generated by boredom.
Third, you can learn from foreign athletes to cheer themselves up before the game, review before waving fists and shouting a few sentences or silently read a few words of uplifting slogans, or slogans written into banners hanging on the wall, to mobilize themselves to re-establish the desire to fight.
Students who are too nervous before the exam are prone to have unexpected events due to their nervousness, which can affect the normal conduct of the exam. In this case, be sure to express what you are really worried about. When nervous, take a few deep breaths, gradually relax your body as you breathe, and then ask yourself, “What are you worried about?” Ask yourself a few more times to get a clear picture.
Here are a few relaxation methods for students.
I. Abdominal breathing
Through the contraction and stretching of the abdominal muscles to inhale and exhale, relax when breathing, intentionally or unintentionally pay attention to the feeling of airflow through the nose and throat, slowly inhale and slowly exhale. If there are more thoughts and ideas in the mind, do not try to control them, let him think. But focus on observing the rhythm of breathing to adjust smoothly.
Second, self-induced relaxation
This method is suitable for doing before going to bed. After lying down, breathe slowly, gradually give instructions to your body, from head to foot, from top to bottom, relax in turn, and experience the feeling of local relaxation of the body, such as a muscle of the face, a joint of the body, etc.. You can also imagine that you are like a puddle of wax oil, gradually melting.
Third, situational meditation
Close your eyes can imagine yourself a beautiful landscape painting in front of you, green grass, the sky is blue as a wash, you are lying on the grass, there are butterflies flying by, you seem to smell the fragrance of flowers and grass, the breeze gently blowing your face, everything is so peaceful and beautiful ……
If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed with stress, exam anxiety, difficulty coping, or have a severe and persistent emotional reaction that is difficult to recover from on your own, it is recommended to get help from a professional psychologist at the psychological clinic of a Chinese medicine hospital in order to successfully resolve stress and emotional problems and successfully cope with the college entrance exam.