I'm sure the students who labeled themselves as "poor testers" in the study above were surprised to hear that they'd done as well as the "good testers!" If you've told yourself for years that you're a poor tester, then you will certainly live up to those expectations on the other hand, if you allow yourself to believe that you are able to get a good score, then you will fare better than you would have by beating yourself up. If you believe yourself to be something, studies suggest that you will be it, even if the statistics prove otherwise. And testing anxiety can ruin a good score! The kids who called themselves poor testers demonstrated the same reading comprehension, decoding, speed, vocabulary usage and testing strategies as the ones who didn't label themselves, but showed significantly higher stress before and during the exam. According to a study published in the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment judging the reading ability during a timed exam between 35 ADHD students who said they were poor testers and 185 students who did not, the only difference was the amount of test-taking anxiety and stress during the reading. That label, called a cognitive distortion, does more harm than you know.
First and foremost, you're going to want to drop that whole, "I'm not a good test-taker" schtick.
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