Of the many factors that contribute to poor performance on standardized tests like the SAT, nerves and (1) , surprisingly, may not rank very high. In fact, according to a new paper published in Journal of Experimental Psychology, a little anxiety—not to mention fatigue—might actually be a very good thing.
The study was conducted by psychology professors Phillip Ackerman and Ruth Kanfer. They (2) 239 college freshmen, each of whom agreed to take three different versions of the SAT reasoning test given on three (3) Saturday mornings. The tests would take three-and-a-haft hours, four-and-a-half hours and five-and-a-haft-hours, and would be administered in a (4) order to each of the students. To (5) the stress level in the students—who had already taken the SAT in the past and gotten into college—Ackerman and Kanfer offered a cash (6) to any volunteers who beat their high-school score.
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Of the many factors that contribute to poor performance on standardized tests like the SAT, nerves and (1) , surprisingly, may not rank very high. In fact, according to a new paper published in Journal of Experimental Psychology, a little anxiety—not to mention fatigue—might actually be a very good thing.
The study was conducted by psychology professors Phillip Ackerman and Ruth Kanfer. They (2) 239 college freshmen, each of whom agreed to take three different versions of the SAT reasoning test given on three (3) Saturday mornings. The tests would take three-and-a-haft hours, four-and-a-half hours and five-and-a-haft-hours, and would be administered in a (4) order to each of the students. To (5) the stress level in the students—who had already taken the SAT in the past and gotten into college—Ackerman and Kanfer offered a cash (6) to any volunteers who beat their high-school score.
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