![]() ![]() Being excessively confident can also cause you to work too quickly and skip important steps. Especially if you’re nervous and the adrenaline is flowing, you may feel as though you’re constantly running out of time and speed up to compensate – even if there is no need to do any such thing. Minutes can feel like seconds, and hours can feel like minutes. It is very easy to develop a distorted sense of time when you are in the middle of a high-stakes exam. That said, there are a handful of common reasons that official scores remain persistently lower than practice scores. Unfortunately, my diagnostic powers in such situations are limited: without a full picture of just what a student is doing when s/he actually takes a test, it’s impossible for me to say exactly what the problem is. The goal seems so close, yet so far away. This is obviously a very frustrating situation: the fact that these students are able to score well when the test doesn’t count suggests that they’re capable of scoring well when it does count – but in some ways, that just makes things worse. When it comes to the real thing, though, they just can’t seem to make everything work. Often, they’ve worked through my books and don’t seem to have any problem applying the concepts when they take practice exams. ![]() Every now and then, I’ll get a plaintive email from a student who has been diligently prepping for the SAT or ACT for months but can’t quite seem to get their test-day scores to match their practice test scores. ![]()
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