Dealing with test anxiety AFTER the test is over

<p>I am freaking out like crazy about my recent AP Euro test. This is my first AP, and im certainly struggling. Is there anyone who just cant concentrate on anything else without knowing how they did on a test (even though the teacher grades so SLOW)!!!! aaaahhhhhh</p>

<p>relax. probably a good idea is to go to sleep. It might be hard, but at least you'll be unconscious for a period of time. hopefully that might calm you down. just remember that it isn't really that important (if it is, convince yourself otherwise). Use cognitive dissonance to shield your brain.</p>

<p>It's over. Your grade is your grade. You did your best. Now relax and focus on your other classes.</p>

<p>Yeah, you know that there's nothing you can do about the grade you're getting now anyways. Personally, if this piece of rationality doesn't work, I go and skim through parts of my notes of things I wasn't sure about on the test to get a basic understanding of what I got right or wrong.</p>

<p>In the beginning of APUSH last year I had major freakouts after tests. But I learned to calm myself down my looking up the answers to questions I remembered (including some I was pretty sure I got right) so I didn't really have anything to be anxious about. I usually predicted my score really well, because I clearly remember questions I struggled on and got wrong. I still do, actually (did you know that John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay were Warhawks during the War of 1812? I will never forget that tidbit).</p>

<p>And dn't forget to breathe.</p>

<p>I always experience this. At least in AP chem she grades ours while were still in the class and there is little time to antagonize over it. I am still beating myself up about making a really silly mistake on my math test today. I never like to look the answers up after, it just makes me more stressed.</p>