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While taking an important exam I find myself thinking of how much brighter the other students are than I am. |
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While taking an important examination I perspire a great deal. |
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During course examinations, I find myself thinking of things unrelated to the actual course material. |
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During tests I find myself thinking of the consequences of failing. |
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Getting a good grade on one test doesn't seem to increase my confidence on the second. |
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I sometimes feel my heart beating very fast during important tests. |
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After taking a test I always feel I could have done better than I actually did. |
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While taking a test my emotional feelings do not interfere with my performance. |
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The harder I work at taking a test or studying for one, the more confused I get. |
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Thinking about the grade I may get in a course interferes with my studying and my performance on tests. |
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On exams I take the attitude, "If I don't know it now there's no point in worrying." |
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Thoughts of doing poorly interfere with my performance on tests. |
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Even when I'm well prepared for a test, I feel very anxious about it. |
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I don't enjoy eating before an important test. |
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Before an important examination I find my hands or arms trembling. |
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The night before a test I stay awake most of the night worrying about the test. |
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When taking a test, I feel that my whole life depends on the grade I get. |
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My parents often disapprove when I get low grades, and I think of their disapproval when I'm taking a test. |
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I am afraid to show the professor what I do not know. |
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I get nervous in exams as I watch what others are doing; I always think that they are answering the questions better than me. |
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If I do not do well on exams, I feel that I am worthless. |
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I give myself "pep talks" on how important it is to remember everything when studying for an exam. |
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I panic before a test because I think that I will demonstrate my lack of intelligence. |
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I panic when people finish a test and leave long before I do. |
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I feel insecure prior to the exam when I hear what other people have studied. |
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I work most effectively under pressure such as when the test is very difficult. |
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I often give a poor test performance when taking an important examination. |
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Once I start taking a test I am no longer nervous. |
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During exams or tests, I experience memory blocks on questions to which I know the answers and find I remember them as soon as the exam is over. |
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When I start a test, nothing is able to distract me. |
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I find that my mind goes blank at the beginning of an exam, and it takes me a few minutes before I can function. |
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I look forward to exams. |
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I am so tired from worrying about an exam that I find I almost don't care how well I do by the time I start the test. |
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Time pressure on an exam causes me to perform poorly. |
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I find myself reading exam questions without understanding them, and I must go back over them so that they will make sense. |
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The more important the exam or test, the better I seem to do. |
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When I don't do well on a difficult item at the beginning of an exam, it tends to upset me so that I block on even easy questions later on. |
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