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Before any exam there is stress, it is the feeling that drives you to the edge of worries, finding your self falling even thought your feet are still on the ground. “I’m gonna lose”, “I’m gonna fail” this uncertainty would wrap you like a rattle snake capturing a rate, squeezing it till the bones scream loud. You might get bored and lose your hope, putting on your fighting spirit the sign “sold”. But Ask you're self, why? It is just an unnecessary fear, your mind is playing devil on you, It is all illusions and fake pictures of your failure. All what you need is to study hard for it using the value of time before the mid or final or what ever exams. Well, I have this experience and I want to share it with you, it might be a little bit mad & crazy, but it's for sure made me feel ready for exams.

I’m gonna mention some techniques that will make you relief and happy:

Madness fight:

My mission was to destroy them in a battle in their castle, and who was I? Well, I was a samurai warrior who came from an old century looking for troubles. I set the plan to attack them and defeat them for good. I sharpened my pen, I used all the knowledge of the world ( My school books) I studied and mastered “the Art of solving”. In my mind there was the image of victory, no matter what consequences would I get, I’d pass the door of success dead or alive. And you know what? My flag was risen all the time in every battle I had.





Friendly mind trick!:

I imagined my exams as if they are my best friends ever, whom I get to see them only for specific times during the year. As you know, a real friend is the one who are welling to give you more than to take from you. Therefore I studied hard with full of attention and care not to hurt my friends by answering them a silly answer or telling them I don’t know. So I have taken my duty very seriously but with a smiley face waiting so patiently to meet them, like waiting for the sun to rise after a long cold night.





Live in the cloths of a scientist :

I’ve done this technique and it is really affective. I have mimicked some of scientists whom had an input in different fields of knowledge. So I dressed up like them, I spoke somehow similar, and acted as if I’m them.

For example, when I had a physic exam, I became "Sir Isaac Newton" (1642-1727) a mathematician and physicist who was one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. His famous story with an apple made the human leaps to the future of modernity and development. I got into his cloths and sunk into his character. I sat on the table putting on it my red apple, solving every physic exercise proving that Newton wasn’t wrong. I felt that if he was here now, he would say to me, “What is that?” “It’s a piece of cake, you’re A”.

Another example, was when I had a Geography exam, I mimicked "Ibn Battuta" (1304-1369) a Moroccan scholar & traveler who is know for his travels & excursions which were recorded by his pen on books worth gold in knowledge scale. He was known for his passion to geography, So I wore a turban on my head, which was an old Arabic hat, and was wearing a cloak ( I used a quilt instead). I was drinking my Arabic coffee with a small cup as they used to drink back in the old days. I lived the part and found it fun to draw my map of success in geography exams.

                                         Ibn Battuta

Cheer your self! ( signs of hope) :

When you watch an advertisement on TV or on news papers, by looking at it every day, it captures you and hunts your mind. It is similar if you do it to your mind. Write down cheerful words such as "Your the winner" You gonna succeed" OR write your name next to it a smiley face on a folded papers, use them as signs. Keep them on your desk, after every 1 hour of studying take a deep breath & then look at your signs, repeat what's written on your signs. Then go back to your study. I call this technique "Signs of hope".

                                                    "Look at me!! Be happy!" 

Remember you can always surf on the waves of your fears! Nothing is impossible! Take a cup of tea, relax and enjoy. I leave you with a poem written by me that suits this blog.


Title: The big challenge

Let the day of the finals begins

And the sun of your victory rises

You will beat all the hard tests

And you shall be top on the list

Success and glory, they are your quest

And more than that you will be the best

So days and nights with out rest

Work hard and be happy, for that I insist!



Goooood luck!

Dedication: Thanks for sylwia who inspired me to write this blog, she is having exams soon, so I wish her good luck and success in her study and life.

Also I would like to thank Reema, who encouraged me a lot.