The below resource offers many tips for taking exams, such as how to manage your time, approach multiple-choice items, and complete constructed-response or essay items successfully.
If you have experienced test anxiety at some point in your academic career, you are not alone. Up to 40% of US students have suffered from test anxiety at some point in their undergraduate or graduate careers (Cassady, 2010). If test anxiety is something that affects your academic performance on licensure exams, there are many strategies you can employ to reduce that anxiety and ultimately improve your performance on exams. Read the below excerpt from The Stress Less Workbook (Abramowitz, 2012) for guidance on navigating test anxiety if this is something you have experienced.
Review the below study strategies from Make It Stick (Brown, Peter C., et al, 2014) for research-based best practices for learning material and retaining content for the long term.
Want to take a deeper dive into the positive effects of retrieval practice and spaced studying? Work through the "How to Remember Everything Forever-Ish - Spaced Repetition" website for more! By Nicky Case, October 2018