By Ubaid Ahmed Pitafi :

If you are a student and you work hard all year, you have all the skills: how to memorize lessons, how to prepare for exams, and you prepare accordingly. But as soon as you enter the exam hall, something happens to you. You make so many mistakes that you can't believe it yourself.

Despite putting in a lot of effort and memorizing everything before the exam, when you leave the exam hall and reach home, suddenly all the answers come back to you. If given the same paper again, you could solve it very well. But during the exam, you forget.



Every year, many students take various tests and exams. Out of the millions who take university exams, government job tests, or competitive exams like the CSS, only a small percentage pass. From the large number of students, only a few thousand manage to pass.

Have you ever tried to understand why this happens? Why do you make mistakes in the exam hall despite having all the skills and resources? The answer is that you lose the required mental state there. (Here, the required state means the mental state you need to be in.)

You cannot maintain your recommended state, your resourceful zone, under your control. Because when you think about the exam, a sense of fear overcomes you. Your body starts to feel uneasy, and you may feel pain in your stomach. As your internal thoughts change, you start to feel fear, and your state immediately changes.

Remember, all the learning stored in your brain is in a particular mental state. For example, when you study and work hard all year, you are in a relaxed state, known as the Alpha state. You are in a calm and peaceful environment, and you memorize your lessons in this relaxed state. You are in a state of calmness and relaxation. But as soon as you enter the exam hall, that relaxed environment is not there. There is haste, crowd, time constraints, fear of difficult questions, anxiety, and pressure to solve the questions within the given time.

In such a situation, your mental state immediately changes from the Alpha state to a high Beta state. A state of fear emerges. On the contrary, you memorized the lessons in an organized state. So, it's like you stored your items in "X" drawer but are now looking for them in "Y" drawer. Will you ever find those items? No. But the problem is that we are not taught this, and who will teach us? Because 95% of our teachers don't know this. They were also students once and endured the same, and now they are teaching their students to do the same.

This raises a question in my mind: if this state is so important, why aren't we taught to develop and achieve this state in schools, universities, and colleges?