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We all know to meditate, sleep, exercise, eat healthy, and establish a routine. Any other tips for attaining the right mindset for test day?
• Write your test anxiety away. Research shows that writing about your fears and anxieties before a test boosts test scores (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/211). Write about what you anticipate will be on the test and your worst fears about how test day will play out. Setting it down on paper can be cathartic.
• Practice self-compassion. It's a better motivator for self-improvement than self-criticism. In one study of students taking a difficult test, those who wrote about their mistakes from a compassionate perspective were more motivated to study than those who didn’t (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167212445599). Identify a weakness or mistake, and then write about it from a compassionate and understanding perspective.
• Build confidence. Visualize success. Imagine getting your target score in the mail.
• Use positive affirmations or mantras. You can have a specific one for each section, like @AllezAllez21 did. You can tell yourself you're good-looking, à la @"Cant Get Right".
• Be grateful. When you're sitting at your desk, right before you take the test, take a moment to express gratitude. This test is a lot of things. An opportunity is one of them.
• Take deep breaths. Stress accretes over time, and test day adrenaline only makes things worse. No matter what, stay calm.
• Compartmentalize and do damage control. If you're faced with an impossible question, think of it as question 101. If you have a bad section, tell yourself it was an experimental.
• Be an observer, not a participant. Don't participate in the frantic, nervous energy at the test center. Stay in the zone by staying above the fray.
• Look forward to test day. You have done all the work. Test day is just a chance to show them what you've got.
• Treat this test like just another PT. Remember you can always retake.
What got me about (A) was how weak and subtle it is -- of course pollen are blown by the wind or humans. But the argument assumes that the only way the pollen could have gotten on the relic was that the relic must have passed through the area where the pollen was uniquely found.
Parallel argument: One way to find out which geographical regions an ancient coin purse moved through in the past involves analysis of its contents. A coin purse is linked to a geographical area by identifying coins/currencies inside it that are known to have been unique to that area.
Assumption: The only way the coins could have gotten in the purse was that the purse passed through the area where each coin was uniquely found or made. But perhaps the purse owner simply traded currency from other regions without ever having visited them.