Test Anxiety

[Heroine of the Dragon]

What level of anxiety do you experienced when having to take a test?
Is there any kind of test that creates more anxiety than others?

[Booyakasha]

...I always hated essay tests. 'Write several paragraphs about this history crap you aren't remotely interested in.' 'Write about this garbagey book that's supposedly a literary classic and that you hate like poison.' 'Write a whole bunch of whatever in Latin. Just do it, and shut up.' Gag. Give me all the calculus and stoichiometry instead. I'd prefer even an oral examination or lab practical.

[CaptHayfever]

The tighter the time limit, the more anxiety there is. Timed tests are educationally invalid anyway.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Deku Tree]

I never really got test anxiety. Tests always felt kinda like playing a game or solving a puzzle and I was good at those. I guess I was never much good at timed writing. I'd spend a lot of time thinking of how to precisely express a thought and end up with not a large volume of writing.

It's the open ended schoolwork that gave me anxiety, though. Where the first thing you had to do was choose the topic to cover, and I would worry I'd end up hating what I picked halfway through and waste a bunch of effort and not know what to do instead or how to make it interesting.

[emporornapoleon]

i hate written tests too, find it frustrating as ****

multiple choice or gtfo

[Kukurio]

None, because I'm a professor now and love giving tests. (I get so much work done during them.)

Aren't most people on here pushing 40 though?

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

None, because I'm a professor now and love giving tests. (I get so much work done during them.)

Aren't most people on here pushing 40 though?

Some are in their early or mid-30's like me, but yeah I'd imagine most are in their late 30's or even early 40's.

[Kukurio]

You were way too young when you made your account here.

[Booyakasha]

Aren't most people on here pushing 40 though?

Yes. I'm a poor old man. My eyes are dim, I cannot see, my back is bent, my legs are grey, my ears are grizzled, my nose is knackered.