Tips for studying

Hollie, you may want to check out the Study Tips for Nursing Students forum, where many students have already posted what tips they've found work for them.

[h=2]What Test Anxiety Is and Is Not[/h]Test anxiety, simply defined, is when your anxiety prevents you from showing the professor what you have learned and know. It is not the same as being anxious during a test because you are unprepared or do not understand the material. Although both the test anxious and the unprepared student will be anxious in the test situation, the causes, and therefore the solutions, differ.

Unpreparedness anxiety is best addressed by better preparation, e.g., improved study habits and time management, tutoring, appropriate course selection, etc. Bona fide test anxiety, on the other hand, can be lessened by behavioral relaxation techniques and cognitive strategies (i.e., changing self-defeating thought patterns), as well as by improved study, time management and test-taking skills.

If the issue is test anxiety, you may benefit from searching for test-taking strategies and test anxiety, although there are many included in the link following the quote above. There are many options out there offering these types of situations.