ACADEMIC SUCCESS GROUP

Testing
HOW TO DEAL WITH TEST-RELATED
ANXIETY AND TEST-TAKING TIPS
 1. Check-In
2. Testing Tips
Agenda 3. Activity
4. Mindfulness
5. Activity
6. Check-Out
 CHECK-IN
What is one thing you do to calm
yourself down in times of stress?
 Confidentiality
What you say in here stays in here
Unless
1. Someone is hurting you
2. You want to hurt someone
3. You want to hurt yourself
4. You give me the okay to tell an
adult
 TEST-TAKING TIPS
If you need to memorize
Go with your gut equations, write them down on
instinct! your scratch paper as soon as
the test starts
If you get stuck on a problem,
skip and come back to it. Other Read the questions
problems on the test may help to before the story
refresh your memory.
Night Before Test
1. Write down any last minute questions to ask your teacher
2. Stop studying an hour before bed
3. Go to be early! Sleep helps your brain function at its best

Day Of Test
1. Eat breakfast! Your brain needs fuel.
2. Start your morning with something calming (listening to music,
exercise, favorite tea...)
3. Advocate for yourself: Ask your teachers what accommodations
could be provided (test in the office, seat away from friends, fidget
toy)
 ACTIVITY
Follow the Directions Test
 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1
GROUNDING TECHNIQUE
A calming technique that connects you with the present by exploring the five senses.

things things
5 you can 4 you can
see touch

3 2 1
things things thing
you can you can you can
hear smell taste
 CALM YOURSELF WITH A

5 FINGER BREATHING
BRAIN BREAK

Breathe in

Breathe out
Breathe out

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Start
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 I am grateful
everyday for the
life I have

I am constantly I have the power

growing and to achieve
learning anything I want

EVERYDAY
AFFIRMATIONS
I am open to new
opportunities I am allowed to
that come rest and reset

I am free from
fear and doubts
 When in doubt...
Repeat these Breathing Distract your
mantras: exercises: mind:

I am more than my Take a deep Replay your

grades. inhale for 4 favorite song in
seconds, hold for your head.
My best is all I can 7 seconds, exhale
do, and that is for 8 seconds Think about your
enough. favorite memory.
 CHECK-OUT
Share out one test-taking tip that
you will utilize.