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The MCAT Podcast

244: How to Manage Test Anxiety Before and During Your MCAT Exam

The MCAT Podcast

Ryan Gray

Education, Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.6529 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today, I'm joined by Blueprint MCAT tutor, Alex, to talk about test anxiety and the MCAT. What can you do to prepare and how can you deal with it on test day?

Links:

Full Episode Blog Post

Meded Media

Blueprint MCAT

The Premed Years Podcast Episode 337: How to Overcome Test Anxiety and Take Back Control

Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk: Your body language may shape who you are

Transcript

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0:28.7

MCAT when you need to. Again, that's BlueprintMKAT.com for all of those free goodies.

0:34.6

The MCAP podcast, session number 244.

0:44.4

A collaboration between the medical school headquarters and Blueprint MCAT.

0:48.8

The MCAT podcast is free MCAT prep to help you understand the MCAT, teach you how to

0:53.7

break down questions,

0:55.1

and give you the skills and confidence to get the score you want on your MCAT test day.

1:00.2

Learn more about BlueprintMKat at blueprint prep.com slash MCAT.

1:06.3

Welcome to the MCAT podcast. My name is Dr. Ryan Gray, your host here every week where I get to have

1:12.8

amazing conversations with the wonderful members of the Blueprint Live Online instructor crew,

1:19.3

continuing our discussion with Alex. This week about test anxiety. How do you manage your test anxiety?

1:26.7

Now, neither Alex or I are psychiatrists. I am a physician, but not a psychiatrist. But I did have a psychiatrist on the pre-mid years talking about test anxiety back in episode 337. So if you have pretty severe test anxiety,

1:46.0

I encourage you to go listen to that podcast with Dr. David Puter.

1:50.2

That's at premedears.com slash 337.

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