外刊听读| 经济学人 考试焦虑的真正原因

Exam nerves real cause-High anxiety

Related words:

1. nerve-racking 令人紧张的，焦虑不安的
2. disposition n 性格，性情
3. mock examination 模拟考试
4. run up to the real exam 考试准备
5. performance-drop 表现下滑
6. test-anxiety 考试焦虑

Vocabulary:

1. smug expression 自鸣得意的表情
2. beforehand 预先，事先
3. a life or death situation 生死攸关的情况

Nice sentence:

1. (复习的压力造成) It is not the pressure of the exam hall which causes the problem-take tests worse, but the pressure of revision. If students-who performed well in the mock exam and the digital-learning activities, where they displayed the level of knowledge, did well in the real thing, regardless of how anxious they were on the day. What actually hampers students are high levels of anxiety during the weeks before the exam take place. The greater a student's anxiety in the days before exam, the lower their knowledge -gain is during that period. The test-anxiety is at its worst when students have low expectation of success and simultaneously know that passing the exam is exceedingly important.
2. （做了一个假设如果考试造成焦虑的话）If anxiety was truly interfering with a student's ability to transfer known information from brain to paper via pen, those with high levels of it(anxiety) would perform worse in a real exam than in either a mock beforehand or during online practice sessions. This performance-drop to correlate with levels of self-reported exam nerves.
3. （solution） First, they can raise their belief in their own abilities by reminding themselves of how much they know. Second, they can diminish the significance of the test by reminding themselves that it is not a life or death situation.