Over the past month, I’ve gotten an uptick in the number of emails I get about people being terrified of taking the exam. They thank me for helping to boost their confidence and give them direction, but they are still very very nervous.
I’m responding here, for everyone. You aren’t born able to do lots of things: you role around, poop and cry. You learn everything else.Some things come hard, some things come easy, but you learn them.
Some of you make take issue with me on this one, but I see dealing with anxiety as a skill set. Step one is always where are you right now? Identify that you’re anxious, nervous, scared, grumpy. Then test things that help you move out of those places if you let them be you spiral deeper and deeper. You have to break the thought loop you get stuck in.
If I’m home alone at night and I hear a crack outside, I get a little nervous. Then I hear something else, and suddenly you’re off to the races. Aliens have landed in my town and slaughtered everyone. They’re coming to my neighborhood to finish the job!
It’s so easy to move into that downward spiral. You need some strategies to break you out of it. You need some plans ahead of time for what you’ll do to SNAP out of it.
As far as test anxiety goes, I built that plan for you, and even better you can get it for free — sort of. Currently, I include my No More Test Anxiety package as a free bonus when You sign up for Physician Assistant Exam Scholars. The next issue of the newsletter doesn’t go to the printer until the 1st of May, and I want you to have something you can start using as soon as you order. The No more Test Anxiety package is filled with tips and tricks to beat that sneaky mind of yours and to get your breathing under control on test day so you and your best.
No sense in learning all this medicine for your exam if you blank out on test day.
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