Success over
the Internet
Chapter 7, Test Taking
This site is a comprehensive listing of
college sites that have helpful tips on study skills and taking tests:
http://www.4tests.com/resources/helpfultips.asp
The Math Power site has great tips on how to deal with math anxiety, study for math tests
and take math tests:
http://www.mathpower.com/reduce.htm
California Polytechnic University maintains a good site on test taking tips, including how
to guess answers:
http://www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/tests.objective.html
For strategies to use for difficult test questions, visit
this site at Virginia Tech University:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/strategi.html
The testtakingtips.com site has tips for
test taking, dealing with test anxiety and how to cram.
http://www.testtakingtips.com/
The Study Guides and Strategies site has
information on general test preparation, anticipating test content, review
tools, overcoming test anxiety, organizing for test taking, cramming, emergency
test preparation and 10 tips for test taking.
http://www.studygs.net/tstprp1.htm
Test Anxiety
The Test Anxiety Inventory developed by Charles Spielberger is one of the most widely used instruments to help student understand test anxiety.
The Overcoming Text Anxiety handout from St. Charles Community College has additional suggestions for overcoming test anxiety including positive thinking, controlled breathing, dealing with the fear response, muscle relaxing, rehearsing the test, and other practical suggestions.
This is a great site for test anxiety reduction exercises:
http://ollie.dcccd.edu/Services/StudyHelp/StudySkills/sub/anxiety.htm
For additional tips on managing test anxiety, visit this
site at the University of Western Ontario:
http://www.sdc.uwo.ca/learning/mcanx.html