If you’ve got finals or other exams coming up, and they’re causing a buildup of anxiety – you’re not alone.

Unless your test is fighting a bear. Then you’re alone and you should probably stop reading blogs and go practice your bear-headlock technique.

For the rest of us, test anxiety is an incredibly common phenomenon that I believe stems from several fears. Here are a few key ones:

• The fear of the unknown
• The fear that you’re unprepared
• The fear that everything is riding on this exam

These fears and others can be quelled in several ways, and in this video, we’ll break down those ways – at least 13 of them.