7.10: Summary
Chapter Takeaways
Career Connection
Studies have shown that parents contribute to test anxiety in children by drawing students’ attention to the test day and increasing pressure to perform well. Do you think that worrying about an upcoming test is as harmful as anxiety while taking the test? What do you think can be done to minimize worry?
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Rethinking
Revisit the questions you answered at the beginning of the chapter, and consider one option you learned in this chapter that might change your answer to one of them.
How confident are you in your skills at preparing for and taking tests? Take this quick survey to figure it out, ranking questions on a scale of 1–4, 1 meaning “least like me” and 4 meaning “most like me.”
- I believe I set aside enough time to prepare for tests.
- If I don’t set aside enough time, or if life gets in the way, I can usually cram and get similar results.
- I prefer to pull all-nighters. The adrenaline and urgency help me remember what I need come test time.
- I study my notes, highlight book passages, and use flash cards, but I still don’t feel like I’m as successful as I should be on tests.
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Where do you go from here?
Studying and test taking skills often need to evolve to meet the needs of college responsibilities. What would you like to learn more about? Choose a topic from the list below and create an annotated bibliography that would direct further research.
- the importance of memory in learning new material
- strategies to increase memory
- strategies to increase the effectiveness of studying
- test anxiety
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