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Originally Posted by ShahRukh

Well! Lets just say...Im not doing a whole lot of 'tasbeehing' these days...

any other non-spiritual method would be appreciated.

i used to be the worst one to give exams..now i recite Surah tul Yasin the night before and Surah tul Fatiha just before the writing the exam and I have began to think positively and I dont make exams/tests a life and death situation. I tell myself if "aar ya paar" aka if I pass Allah subwa na wa tallah has willed it so and if I fail He has willed it so and go back and re-evalutate the factors which contributed to my failure and i try to learn from it..

Physically, before writng an exam, i like spendng sometime outside the four walls..outside in hte wilderness (or anywhere there are more trees and less people) and I take some deep breaths it helps change my focus for sometime and calms me down. and I absolutely avoid the "tense" hallway crowd before the exam for they even increase my anxiety..

hope u do well inshaAllah!