It's natural to react to test situations with anxiety or fear.
This statement is true. You can cope better with testing situations if you understand that some anxiety is natural. Fear or anxiety is what we feel in the presence of real or assumed dangers. This a remnant of our more primitive days when we had to make the constant decisions to fight or flee from threats such as wild animals. The fear response allowed your body to be ready to take action at a moment's notice.
However, this useful fear response causes difficulty when your fear reaction is out of proportion to the threat - which is typically how it is with test anxiety. Accepting that testing situations create a certain amount of anxiety can help you recognize the stress and keep it within limits that help you perform at your best.
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