Coaching practices for How to Deal with Test Anxiety Lsat

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• Right before the test or the big moment, my head is so jammed with what-ifs and dread that there’s no room left to actually think
• Even when I face the thing and nothing bad happens, my mind just shrugs it off as "I got lucky this time" and the dread stays exactly the same
• There’s a big thing coming up
• I keep dodging the things that scare me
• There’s a high-stakes thing coming

Practices that may help

1. Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
   Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
   Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical
2. Set realistic expectations before each exposure
   Before you enter the situation, write down your feared prediction — then check it against reality afterward.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
3. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
4. The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
   A fear ladder ranks feared situations from least to most distressing and has you face them in order, from bottom to top. Repeated, systematic exposure to each step without avoidance teaches the brain that the feared situation is survivable, gradually extinguishing the anxiety response. This is one of the best-supported techniques in the anxiety literature.
5. Behavioral experiments
   Test an anxious prediction in real life and compare what you feared with what happened.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
6. Stress Inoculation: Pre-Exposure to Prepare for Future Stress
   Deliberately practice under conditions that simulate the stress of future high-stakes performance.
   Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience
7. Use frequent low-stakes quizzes rather than rare high-stakes tests
   Regular short quizzes — even without grades — produce more retention than equivalent time spent reviewing.
   The Testing Effect: Why Retrieval Practice Beats Restudying
8. De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
   Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
   The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone
9. Practice between sessions, not just in them
   Gains made in a clinic or coaching session consolidate only if rehearsed in real life.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
10. Stay in the situation until anxiety drops
    Remain in the feared situation long enough for distress to fall — leaving early teaches the wrong lesson.
    The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical

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