How to avoid Exam tension

Tension! Its one of the worst ordeal too many people, students especially, are experiencing these days before and during exams. Its understandably so due to lack of preparedness early enough, and just before an exam period, time always appear to be moving faster than normal, a day would seem like an hour and the state of the mind becomes unsettled and unstable.

Your performance in that exam depends largely on how well you handle "tension". The truth is a less tensed mind in most cases does well in examinations than a severely tensed up mind.
Like the saying goes "prevention is preferred to cure".

To help prevent tension, i have lined up some simple tips from experience and research too, that would help you overcome tension:

1. Early preparation: its something we hear virtually always and yet most student turns blind or deaf ears to it. Most student when asked why they appear to tense-up just before an exam, they cry out that they barely had time to prepare. This trend is bound to affect both the so-called "gurus", unless a stop is put to it. Start early enough to prepare for exams, dont procrastinate in order not to put yourself into unnecessary dilema days before exams.

2. Practice with past question papers:
some schools of thought believes that some course dont have room for new questions, which creates more rooms for repitition of question from previous ones.
Whether you choose to agree or not with that thought, the importance of practise cannot be over-emphasized, reason been  that so many students have fallen prey to exam tension by simply overlooking past question on a particular course. Practising past question always gives you a clue on how to solve questions that poses problematic before being admitted into the exam hall and also if fortunate, go straight to answer any repeated question.

3. Do only revision an hour to your exam:
Students, most of them, falls for the temptation of still reading new topics one hour to their examination time. Doing this tends to disstabilizer the nerves, thereby obstructing it retention ability. This is largely caused by lack of early preparation as stated above, and you'll students trying to make up in one hour thing they did not read for week and probably months, it doesnt work that way.
Do only revise topics you have read before and memorize them, preferrably dump your note at that time and work with your jotter alone, you'll notice how eased you're gonna write your exam.

4. Never depend on your colleaque/coursemate:
These days, the reliance on coursemate or colleaques for answers in exam hall is realy alarming.  Usually due to lack of preparation or lack of confidence they tend to count on their coursemates for what to write in exam hall. Worst case scenerio sometime happens when they or their benefactors are being swapped for another seat which leave them frustrated and tensed-up. The best thing to prepare for the exam, be confident in your abilities and stay positive.