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Your heart is pounding and your hands are sweaty. You know the material like the back of your hand, but right now, you would have trouble spelling your name if someone asked you to. When you walk into an exam room, it’s as though you don’t have control over your mind or your emotions, and you’re full of Anxiety.
Test anxiety can be sneaky, though. You may feel like you aced the test only to be disappointed when you receive a less-than-stellar grade.
Does this sound familiar? You may have Test Anxiety.
Accommodations for students with Test Anxiety and other Anxiety Disorders can help you in the exam room, with school assignments, and in your daily student life.
What is Test Anxiety?
Test anxiety is a mental health disorder, and it’s more common than you may think. According to some reports, test anxiety affects between 16 and 20 percent of students. One study found that up to 40 percent of students may struggle with test anxiety.
Stress levels shoot up whenever most people are faced with a text or an exam. However, for people with test anxiety, the pressure is debilitating.
You might get nauseous or throw up. You may faint. The worst part is that you may end up doing poorly on the test no matter how hard you studied.
Young people deal with much more academic pressure than they did in the past. In fact, the average high school student in this century has the same amount of anxiety as the typical psychiatric patient did in the 1950s.
How is Test Anxiety Holding You Back?
Today’s college students are experiencing a crisis that’s caused by an intense burden to excel. Some may have a generalized anxiety disorder that trickles into their schoolwork. Others may struggle with fear of failure or self-doubt caused by getting poor grades on tests in the past. Some may feel paralyzed by their competition.
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America lists the following as some symptoms of test anxiety:
• Headaches
• Nausea or other stomach upset
• Excessive sweating
• Racing heart
• Rapid, shallow breathing
• Light-headedness or dizziness
• Panic attacks
• Intense fear or anger
• Feelings of helplessness or hopelessness
• Extreme disappointment
• Trouble concentrating
• Negative, intrusive thoughts
If you’re suffering from these emotional or physical symptoms, it’s no wonder you can’t concentrate on the test questions. But you may be a candidate for accommodations for students with anxiety disorders.
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Did You Know that You May Qualify for Test Anxiety Accommodations?
If you’ve ever dealt with the intense emotions that can prevent you from doing well on a test, you might think that you have no hope. After all, what’s the point of studying if you’re going to bomb anyway?
Preparing for a test can help you know that you’ve tried your hardest. But college students have to juggle full workloads. If you have test anxiety, you might feel like you never have enough time to study as much as you need to.
Asking for more time to complete certain assignments can help. So can having more time to take the test. You may not even have to take the exam, as professors may offer alternate options to students with who qualify.
If you’ve been diagnosed with test anxiety that qualifies as a mental impairment and substantially limits at least one major life activity, you may be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act for test anxiety accommodations. You could take the test in another room or have the time limit waived, and you could even qualify to submit a paper or project in lieu of the test.
Find out if you qualify for test anxiety accommodations by taking this assessment today. Whether or not you have been diagnosed with anxiety in the past, it may be a very real issue for you today. Don’t let it interfere with your learning and your potential for success.
Test anxiety accommodations coupled with treatment for mental health disorders can help you cope with the demands that you face now, and give you tools to overcome any obstacle in the future.
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