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　　Many people are nervous before they take a test．But some people are so consumed by anxiety that they-actually defeat themselves, performing poorly on the exam even when they know the material they are being tested on．Recently some researchers say they've developed a way to help people with extreme test-taking anxiety to relax before their exams．The technique involves having test-takers write down their fears, and that simple exercise results in a dramatic improvement in test scores．

　　Why students become so nervous that they are unable to perform in a test-taking situation? Before a test, they start worrying about the consequences．They might even start worrying about whether the exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want．And when people worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources that could otherwise be used to focus on the exam．

　　In a series of laboratory experiments, a group of 20 anxious college students was given a short math test and told to do their best．Afterwards, the students were either asked to sit quietly before taking the test again or to write about their thoughts and fears regarding the upcoming re-test．Researchers created a stressful testing environment, telling the students they would receive money if they did well on the second test．The group of students who sat quietly before retaking the second math test scored worse, their accuracy dropping by 12 percent on the second test．But students who wrote about their fears immediately before the re-test showed an average five percent improvement in accuracy on the second math test．

　　What the researchers showed is that for students who are highly test-anxious, who'd done the writing intervention, all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and performance．These students who most．tended to worry were performing just as well as their classmates who don't normally get nervous in these testing situations．

　　It is suggested that even if a professor doesn't allow students to write about their worst fears immediately before an exam or presentation, students should try it themselves at home or in fee library and still improve their performance．

1．How do the researchers relax people with test-taking anxiety?

2．Why do students become nervous when taking an exam?

3．A series of laboratory experiments made by researchers show that ________．

4．What is the best title of the passage?

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