Atrocious test-taking skills?

Question

I am in dire need of some help. Any kind of help. I'm a student at a university and I'm not doing too well. Actually, I'm doing horrible. I have failed almost every test while in the university. I have asked for help here and there but it seems that nothing much has changed.

I'm a pretty serious student most of the time. I go to all my classes, I turn in my assignments in on time. I get around 90-100 on all my assignments. But the problems are the huge exams which are 35-50% of my grade. I choke like no other. I get terrible anxiety day before the exam. It's just beyond what I can handle right now.

The worst part is that I completely forget what I have learned in class. Completely forget even the simplest things. There were times when the exam problems and the assignemnts were exactly the same....and I would forget.

I do terrible on my exams. I'm usually the worst in my class, I get 10/100, 7/100 on my exams. THey are the same as the assignments.

I want to improve, but how

Answer 1

create a test like environment where u live and take the test timed. or just ask fo help from ur professors

Answer 2

It sounds to me like you have test anxiety, and there are ways to combat that.

Make part of your studying testlike. Take a few questions, set yourself up in a test atmosphere, and answer them within a given amount of time.

Additionally, there are places like Princeton Review and Kaplan that can help you with test strategy. In the meantime, I hope this will help!

http://wc.pima.edu/~carem/TESTTIPS.html

Best of luck! :)