Test Anxiety!

How do we develop test anxiety? Why do some of us have GI distress at the thought of standardized testing or certification testing while others breeze through it? Well, I am one that suffers from test anxiety. I am taking a NCAST training, which is a feeding scale that rates parent/infant interactions during a feeding time. The test is a very reliable indicator of parent bonding/infant response and indicates when a parent might need helping learning their infants cues or how to interact with them. Long story short, I am in a training right now to become certified to perform the test. We test tomorrow and the results get shipped to CA for grading. We don't know for a month if we passed or failed! YIKES! I passed all 4 of the practice tests, but still............I am one that second guesses everything.

I suppose some of the anxiety relates to seeking acceptance from those higher than you (ie: colleges that you want to go to, bosses/parents that will find out the results, peers taking the class with you) or feeling competent. You know? Keep your fingers crossed for me tomorrow!!