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Hi everyone, I wanna start a thread to discuss some strategies for fighting test day nervousness. I think all of us suffer from test day nervousness to a certain degree. What do you guys do when you get nervous during a PT, especially when the proctor says "start"? It'll also be cool if someone who has taken a real LSAT could share the experience. Thanks.

cornell wrote:Hi everyone, I wanna start a thread to discuss some strategies for fighting test day nervousness. I think all of us suffer from test day nervousness to a certain degree. What do you guys do when you get nervous during a PT, especially when the proctor says "start"? It'll also be cool if someone who has taken a real LSAT could share the experience. Thanks.

There really isn't anything that will completely calm your nerves the first time you take the real thing. I don't get shaken much by nerves, but even I had a moment during my actual logic games section when the proctor said five minutes. Just be sure that you bring everything that you could possibly need, since if you know you're prepared it will help to calm you down. Sweater, extra pencils, pencil sharpener, snack, analogue watch, tissues, blah blah blah. Other than that you just have to be prepared to take a deep breath in between sections and to plunge right back in.

St.Remy wrote:There really isn't anything that will completely calm your nerves the first time you take the real thing.

Drugs.

bk187 wrote:

St.Remy wrote:There really isn't anything that will completely calm your nerves the first time you take the real thing.

Drugs.

Yeh getting high right before the test could cure test anxiety. I'm not so sure it would help with the actual grades though.

not thoseee types of drugs

Just keep going and know that eventhough u r nervous your accuracy has not changed.

Make sure you take a couple of PT's with someone else in the room, preferably also taking a PT. If you don't know anyone taking it in October, take one with someone working on something else. It stresses me out to be near other people when I'm doing PT's- the whole he-just-turned-the-page-omg-am-i-behind thing. Now, through practice, I've gotten used it.

Also, I like to suck on hard candy, usually peppermints when I'm nervous. It helps. Yeah, Freud would love it, but w/e.

Eugenie Danglars wrote:Make sure you take a couple of PT's with someone else in the room, preferably also taking a PT. If you don't know anyone taking it in October, take one with someone working on something else. It stresses me out to be near other people when I'm doing PT's- the whole he-just-turned-the-page-omg-am-i-behind thing. Now, through practice, I've gotten used it.

Also, I like to suck on hard candy, usually peppermints when I'm nervous. It helps. Yeah, Freud would love it, but w/e.

Yeah, I've used LSAT Cacophony before, and at first, the sound of pencils skritching freaked me out to no end! Now I've decided just to tell myself that all those skritchers are on LG and so I don't need to be skritching as I'm on RC/LR... lol and then on LG my pencil will be going too so I won't care.