Exam Nerves

Exam nerves are a form of anticipatory or performance anxiety. Exam nerves can lead to a mental block, a failure to recall information and/or a difficulty in creativity or integrating different bits of information.

Exam nerves can be caused by a lack of stress management. Stress activates a different neural path in our brains - diverting neurone activity from the thinking parts of the brain to those of the muscles, which is obviously the last thing we want to do when we want to 'think' our way out of a problem rather than flee from it.

Exam nerves can be brought about by a single past exam trauma, and a fear of repeating that trauma, or from self-confidence and self-esteem issues. People with low self-esteem may otherwise actually be objectively highly knowledgeable and competent in their subjects but if they don't believe in their own competence, they will be unduly stressing themselves leading to peformance anxiety and an unrepresentative display of their talents.

It's often possible to establish a positive and confident mindset for exams with one session of clinical hypnosis. In addition fluency and memory recall can be enhanced. Occasionally additional work may be needed to address underlying self-esteem issues.

 See also: performance anxiety

Recommended Therapy: clinical hypnosis & NLP

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