How to Spend the Day of the Career Consultant Exam | What You Must Absolutely Not Do Between the Written and Essay Sections

The day of the Career Consultant exam.

You will feel a sense of relief once the written exam is over.

However, how you spend that break time can have a surprisingly large impact on the subsequent essay exam.

What I highly recommend is that you absolutely do not check your answers for the written exam.

Forget the written exam the moment it ends

When the break time starts,

there will be people around you saying,
"What was the answer to that last question?"

or "Question number X was Y, right?"

However, I recommend that you do not join those conversations.

This is because even if you check your answers and realize you made a mistake, the results of the written exam cannot be changed.

Instead,
"I might have gotten that question wrong..."
"I might have failed because of this..."

you may find yourself dwelling on these thoughts, which could negatively affect the upcoming essay exam.

What is important is to forget about the written exam and switch your brain into essay mode.

Break time is for regaining your "confidence"

What I found helpful was to lightly review the essay problems I had solved in the past.

"I was able to solve this pattern."
"I wrote it using this line of thinking."

Just looking at things like that strangely helps you calm down.

There is no need to cram in new knowledge.

Use this time to recall what you have built up so far and confirm to yourself, "It's okay, I have prepared this much."

In closing

On the day of the exam, your mental state is just as important as your knowledge.

Once the written exam is over, put those results out of your mind.

Then, shift your focus toward the essay exam.

Just by doing that, it becomes easier to stay calm and perform at your best.

I am rooting for all of you taking the exam to be able to face it as your true selves until the very end.