Am i the only one!!

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edited 10:31AM in AAT student discussion
I'm coming up to my first aat exam, and having sat various other book-keeping papers i just no what i will be like on the day.I can work through assignments, past papers no problem, but as soon as i sit in an exam room lay out my pencils etc, start reading the paper my brain switches off.Has anybody got any sound advise on how to copy with exam situations. Thanks :shock:

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    Relax, dont think of it as an exam!! Just think of it as sitting at home at your table, have a drink to hand and some biscuits or sweets, when the time comes to start and open the paper, dont, stop, take a sip of the drink, then open the paper and read it, all the way through. Have another drink, then start on question 1. Its just a case of not panicking. good luck
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    Hi, no you are not the only one I am really stressed thinking about going into the exam room and sitting at the desk. My mind just goes blank, I'm a mature student and i'm afraid that I wont remember anything. I have even been thinking about not turning up cause I'm so stressed.

    Good luck in the exam
    Aly
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    I'm the same as well, no matter how much revision etc I do, once I am in the exam and have the paper in fron of me my mind goes blank and i can't concentrate.

    God Luck to all
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    I feel the same, no matter how much I have revised,I will still be so nervous on the day. Last year I was recommended 'Rescue Remedy' You can buy it at most chemists. I found it calmed my nerves down quite a bit.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    Thanks for that, i'm a mature student too in fact this time last year i was a disillusioned engineer so as the old saying goes "better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb rather that halfway up one you don't" so turn up for the exam and go for it.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    i am a mature student, glad to hear there are others, feel a bit to old to be doing this.
    I just find it difficult to remember formulas.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    Hi

    I know it's a bit late for the June exams, but I find that by looking at the paper as a quiz rather than an exam, it makes it more bearable. In fact I rather enjoy exams. However, this does not stop me from getting nervious. I actually felt my stomach turn when I sat my ECR exam in June. I can get up and perform infront of 500 people for seven performances a week but I can't not get nervious for an exam. Weird Huh
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!
    Kate Monster wrote:
    Hi

    I know it's a bit late for the June exams, but I find that by looking at the paper as a quiz rather than an exam, it makes it more bearable. In fact I rather enjoy exams. However, this does not stop me from getting nervious. I actually felt my stomach turn when I sat my ECR exam in June. I can get up and perform infront of 500 people for seven performances a week but I can't not get nervious for an exam. Weird Huh

    I know exactly what you mean! What stuff do you perform I do shows and musicals as a soprano soloist...but this AAT stuff really gets to me sometimes!
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Am i the only one!!

    I am currently performing in Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre in London. Soon I will be moving on the work with an amateur company on Jekyll and Hyde.

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