Today I will take my PRINCE2 exam. I studied a fair bit on it and I imagine that it should not be too hard for me to get. However it does not change the fact that I am feeling quite anxious right now.
Feeling like this sends me down memory lane; as long as I remember – be it highschool or college – I have always had this thing before tests where the stress levels start to make my physically uneasy. Despite of my preparations I cannot lessen the discomforts I endure before tests.
The funny thing is I am only feel mildly nervous, yet my body is reacting fiercely; currently my intestines are severely grumpy (I will spare you the details). I know that towards the start of the test I will get increasingly excited.
All of this does help me in a way. I know I will feel this way, so I tend to prepare a lot better than I do for other things. For one, I make a lot of preperation material on the subject of the exam. I also plan out how to get to the exam and have a contingency plan in case my travel arrangements don’t work out, especially when using public transport. In short, I take away all things that might cause me to get anxious before the exam.
When the exam starts all of the tension, physical stress and so on slides off me, as long as things are going well. After the test is done I usually have the massive relief from just having done the test, which might or might not be enhanced or mitigated by the result of the test.
I got to wrap this up as I need to get ready to head out. Hopefully next time I write here I will be in the possession of my PRINCE2 foundations certificate.