Just want to say I agree with what Dane is saying about building up confidence. I had failed the FS several times and by the time I would get to the 2nd part, I'd be a nervous wreck and would just blindly run through the questions because I didn't know them. I would always have a couple hours left at the end. I listened to a podcast that says the body's chemical reaction to anxiety and excitement are the SAME so if you take control of the situation and tell your mind/self that you are excited instead of anxious, your brain will believe it because of the chemical reaction being the same. I took the exam Aug 30th and was starting to get anxious so I tried it. I actually went through that a few times in the beginning and that's the first time I ever took the FS calm. I utilized almost all the time except for 30 min because I had a headache starting at hour 1 and I was just done. I probably went over the problems at least 5 times just process of elimination. I think there were maybe 5 questions I couldn't do process of elimination on and just flat out guessed and was very surprised when I got the result that I passed that next Wednesday.
Just want to say I agree with what Dane is saying about building up confidence. I had failed the FS several times and by the time I would get to the 2nd part, I'd be a nervous wreck and would just blindly run through the questions because I didn't know them. I would always have a couple hours left at the end. I listened to a podcast that says the body's chemical reaction to anxiety and excitement are the SAME so if you take control of the situation and tell your mind/self that you are excited instead of anxious, your brain will believe it because of the chemical reaction being the same. I took the exam Aug 30th and was starting to get anxious so I tried it. I actually went through that a few times in the beginning and that's the first time I ever took the FS calm. I utilized almost all the time except for 30 min because I had a headache starting at hour 1 and I was just done. I probably went over the problems at least 5 times just process of elimination. I think there were maybe 5 questions I couldn't do process of elimination on and just flat out guessed and was very surprised when I got the result that I passed that next Wednesday.