Are you afraid of sitting exams? Try this...

It's a couple of days before your IT exam. In the pit of your stomach, fear is beginning to rise. And as the date and time approaches it starts to consume your mind, your body, your psyche.

You begin fearing failing your exam, letting yourself down, having to pay the exam fear again, and not getting the certification - the prize you have been working towards for months.

Stop.

How do you let go of fear and replace it with excitement?

Have you perfectly passed an exam before? Or even passed a practice exam perfectly before? If you have done this more than once, then how to pass exams is programmed in your mind. At that point in time you were in a certain state. A state of excitement, confidence, unweaving belief that you would pass.

At that point in time there was a certain way you were thinking, a certain way you were using your body. All you have to do is access that, in order to produce the same result.

If this is your first IT exam then think back to the time you passed any exam, whether for your driver's licence, an exam in school or whatever.

A job well done is programmed in your mind. A job you totally screwed up is also there. It's depends on which resources you access. Access the right one to produce the result you desire.

It takes the same time and energy to fail or succeed

To feel like a failure...

You have to access all the times in your mind that you failed.
You group them all in one big ball of failure - and thus come up with the verdict "I'm a loser"
You have to use your body a certain way, your posture, your breathing

To feel like a success...

You access all those times in your mind that you succeeded
You group them together in one giant ball of success and come up with the verdict - "I can totally do this!"
You use your body in a certain way, your posture stands tall, confidence is the dominating feeling

So how can you feel you will pass your exam when you certainly don't feel it?

Don't bother sitting for any IT exam till you feel it. It's not a matter of thinking positively. It's a matter of believing positively and to believe something that belief has to have 'legs'.

Those 'legs' begin taking shape when:

You begin scoring high on practice exams
You go to computer forums and start realizing you can answer people's questions
You open your certification book and start realizing there is nothing in it that you don't know

To pass your exam, you need to feel certain that you will pass it. It has nothing to do with positive thinking. Saying to yourself, "I'll pass, I'll pass, I'll pass", when you haven't studied well enough, is just stupid.

This technique works for every area of your life. How about when you go for an interview? The same thing. Access that part of your memory where a successful interview is stored.