Through the years we’ve met so many students who struggle with test anxiety and feelings of nervousness. In fact, students of all levels struggle with low confidence or feeling like they’re bad test takers. We’re very privileged to have spoken with Olympic Gold Medalist Barbara Ann Cochran about how she dealt with performance anxiety when she was a competitive athlete and how she coaches students to speed confidently down the sides of mountains–and take tests!

Check out our four part series with Barbara Ann and her thoughts on

• Developing Mental Toughness

• Mental Training That Everyone Can Do

• What Good Test Takers Do

• Knocking out Negativity and Coping with Defeat.

Barbara Ann’s insights are outstanding and incredibly useful to everyone, particularly students in high stress situations, like tests and competitive athletics. We’re thrilled that we can bring her ideas to life here. You can find more about Barbara Ann Cochran and her extraordinary coaching for athletes at her website.

Want even more? Check out Test Taking Skills and Strategy Central.