I've always been extremely bad at things like this. Working quickly is one thing I cannot seem to do. Which makes this extremely good practice of course!
Last week I cleaned up a lot my room and went through stuff from primary school. Speedruns, where we had a sheet of sums that we had to solve as quickly as possible, always showed I was within the bottom half of the class (I don't remember the exact number), while mostly other tests' scores were in the top 85% or something. "Slowly but steadily," I guess?
Oddly my typing speed is faster than everyone else I know, including in a class full of coders. I'm not slowest in everything at least.
I'm 30 now, and a little better at it, but I'm still relatively shitty with timed thinking exercises, and being graded in general. Reminds me of university where I did poorly on exams. I'd have graduated with a much better GPA if it weren't for my anxiety over them. The worst classes were the ones with finals worth 50% of the total grade.
I'd waste 2 hours pulling my hair out imagining what it would be like if I failed, instead of working. Looking back I probably should've seen a doctor about my anxiety issues.
Sorry to hear that, sounds like it might indeed have been helpful to speak to someone about this. On the other hand, you did make it so far :)
Though I wasn't good at those speed tests, I'm generally not that frightened to do them. If I fail, so be it, nothing to change about it at that point except do my best. The period of anxiety is always just before starting, doubting whether I put enough work into it and whether I could get any studying done in 5 minutes.
Contrarily to most other students it seems, I'm hardly ever anxious to learn the results of a test after I've made it. I'm curious of course, but not anxious to know whether I failed or not. It even gets on my nerves to hear everyone analyzing each minor detail of the test like a post-mortem. I usually ask around if someone knows the answer to something I completely missed out on (if anything) and that's about it.
Last week I cleaned up a lot my room and went through stuff from primary school. Speedruns, where we had a sheet of sums that we had to solve as quickly as possible, always showed I was within the bottom half of the class (I don't remember the exact number), while mostly other tests' scores were in the top 85% or something. "Slowly but steadily," I guess?
Oddly my typing speed is faster than everyone else I know, including in a class full of coders. I'm not slowest in everything at least.