that test that you've been frantically  cramming for and dreading for months

at this point you're made up of around 70 coffee  

your sleep schedule has flown out the window  and even your pet smells better than you

but hey all that studying and  cramming is going to be worth it right

well now it's exam day and here  you are ready for your exam  

or not suddenly you realize your  pencil doesn't have an eraser

oh my gosh my pencil it doesn't have an  eraser and when you start actually taking  

the test your mind draws a blank and you realize  you've forgotten everything i don't remember  

anything panic overwhelms you and out of sheer  desperation you just randomly bubble in answers  

so if you're like me and have struggled  with test anxiety or just don't know what  

to do with yourself the day before and of  an important exam hopefully these study tips  

and exam day routine will help you not  have a mental breakdown during the exam  

so my exam day routine truly  starts the day before the exam  

and actually sometimes even a few days before  it's around three days before any really big exam  

i usually stop watching any shows movies  or even reading fictional books i might use  

study with me's or watch content related to the  topics i'm studying but that's pretty much it  

and i even only listen to a specific playlist  of classical music to get into the right focused  

mindset so the day before i'm only listening  to classical music if any music at all  

because i don't know why but it just really  helps me clear my mind and stay focused

so exam day eve if that's a thing i am  either reviewing my exam summary pages or  

finishing making my exam summary pages so my  exam summary pages are really just summaries of  

the information that i feel least confident about  and that i feel i need to keep reviewing the most  

so the exam summary pages can have  formulas or vocab or concepts that  

i feel i need to keep reviewing for one  final day or if it's an essay exam it  

could be facts and dates that i need  to memorize for good essay responses  

so if i know there's going to be an essay question  on the exam i like to practice answering a few of  

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once i'm done reviewing for the day i prepare some  breakfast for the next morning so i'm obsessed  

with overnight oats and they're perfect breakfast  since they're full of nutrients fruits nuts  

nuts etc and can give you energy for test  day without being rough on your stomach i  

also recommend not drinking any caffeine the  night before since you want to have at least  

seven ish hours of solid night sleep so then  after that i prepare my clothes for the next day  

as well as a list of everything that i  need for the test which is super important  

so make sure you have your id if you need it your  calculator and anything else required for the exam  

or else you just might not be able to take it  and then i just fully prepare my backpack and  

check it a million times to make sure it's 100  ready so i don't worry about it in the morning  

so now it's the morning of the exam so i'm having  my breakfast while reading over my exam summary  

pages again then i bring the summary pages with  me in a folder usually but i don't recommend  

reading them in the car if you're being driven by  your parents since you might get card sick so if  

the test center allows it because usually there's  like some waiting period i usually keep reviewing  

until the last possible minute which i know most  people don't recommend but it works for me because  

immediately once the exam begins i always write  down whatever i can remember that i struggled  

with the most from my exam summary pages onto the  very front page any free space that's there pretty  

much that i was just reading right before the exam  that usually takes maximum three to four minutes  

so after that if it's a multiple choice  exam i use what i like to call the easy  

star circle system i don't know if there's an  official term for this if this is an official  

method or not but pretty much what i do is i first  go through all the questions i find super easy  

and i'm 100 sure about because that way it  boosts my confidence and also i completely  

avoid anything that i'm remotely confused about to  avoid increasing my anxiety and being overwhelmed  

or freaking out that i'm not going to do well so  as i'm going through the questions one by one i  

put stars next to the ones that i think i know how  to answer but just need more time to and circles  

around questions that seem really confusing or  hard and that i don't know how to answer so once  

i've gone through all the really easy ones then i  work through the star questions and then finally  

once i've gone through all of the star questions  i attempt to do any circle ones or really really  

hard ones and if i still don't know how to do them  i'll just guess on them to the best of my ability  

if it's an essay-based exam i'll try to give  myself around a quarter of the time that i have to  

write out an outline of everything and any  facts or names or points that i remember from my  

exam summary page that i want to add  and then i just write as fast as i can  

based on my outline and i try to divide  each paragraph timewise into equal amounts  

of time giving myself at least a five  minute window before the end of the exam

so if i have free time at the end the first thing  i do is i definitely double check my scantron to  

make sure that i bubbled everything in correctly  because you do not want to end up accidentally  

missing everything by one bubble and then  completely messing up your answers and then if  

i have a lot of free time which sometimes happens  i just keep checking over my work and seeing if i  

made any careless errors or miscalculations and  usually i've made at least one or two especially  

if it's the math section so i save myself from  losing easy points by just going over my answers  

again and yeah so then i just keep reviewing  and double checking until the exam is done

why did you lie down exactly on my papers  are they really that comfortable for sleeping