LASSI!

     So a few days ago I took another one of those academic surveys, called LASSI, which try to place you in a certain category of academic success.  This one was different, catering more towards my success within the classroom and ways to improve how I study and learn.  Thankfully, most of my scores were above the 75th percentile range, which is the target range for having good academic strategies.
    Only a few categories fell below this target range, all of which I already know I need to improve on and have been working towards improving.  My two lowest scores fell under anxiety and selecting main ideas.  I have always had anxiety during tests, affecting my score in every manner possible.  Typically I get nervous, then second guess my answer, choosing a completely different answer that ends up being wrong, and then I do horribly on the test.  It is a never-ending process for me.  My anxiety typically kicks in on any sort of English test, which focuses a lot on selecting main ideas.  Ironically, selecting main ideas was my other really low score.  It is clear that my anxiety issues are very connected with my trouble of selecting main ideas. 
     Most of my scores I agree very much with but a few of my scores I do not agree so much with.  These include my score on attitude and self-testing.  According to my attitude score I should not care at all about my grades but I care very strongly about my grades.  I never made below an A before AP Chemistry my junior year and strive for nothing less than an A in all my classes.  So to be told I do not care about my education is way off from my actual interest and concern over my education.  My other disagreement is with my score on the self-testing category.  This score shows that I do not do a good job of testing myself in preparation for actual tests which is not true.  I spend a lot of time reworking problems and testing myself to make sure I know how to do something before the actual exam.  Self-testing is what helped me do well in Calculus my senior year.
     For the most part I agree with the rest of the scores given to me from LASSI.  My motivation and information processing scores were very high as well as my time management score.  Organization, motivation to do well in school, and time management are what helped me do well in high school and shoot for high goals in college.  I continually use these skills on a daily basis to do well in my classes.  Being busy with clubs and class has helped me to plan out my days better in order to complete everything I need to complete for school.
     Overall I believe I am doing a very good job of staying motivated and on top of my school work to do well in my academics.  My only concern is over my anxiety issues which I hope to fix soon and continue to work on each and every day.  Stay tuned to here about how I deal with anxiety in my schoolwork as I have a statistics test tomorrow which will be another test of my anxiety.  This time, I will go with my first decision on a question and not second guess my answer choice.  Hopefully it works!