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What's the best way to prepareDo you know how to be prepared best for any exam?
Many people are anxious and suffer from stress before and during an examination. They may even make simple errors that are not typical of their usual behavior. People who take licensing exams often experience greater stress due to a need to succeed because the results will determine whether or not they will be able to enter their chosen field. It is therefore important to prepare yourself emotionally to take your license exam. Part of being prepared emotionally is for you to be able to recognize the symptoms of stress and anxiety. Stress is often strong enough to lead to incresed heart rate, shortness of breath, trembling hands, shaking legs, nausea, sweating, etc. Test anxiety and worry lead to a series of negative results including poor concentration, confusion, negative attitudes or moods, negative self-orientation, fear, anger, and even panic. Often a person develops poor coping strategies such as becoming involved in negative self talk. A common psychological defense against these negative feelings and thoughts is giving up and becoming helpless or paralyzed during a test. The ability to perform well under pressure, however, is a skill that you can learn. Several strategies for overcoming test anxiety follow.
Protect Your Smartphone From Malicious QR Codes
Quick Response or QR codes like the one in the picture above seem to be popping up everywhere these days. They are great for advertisers and marketers because they allow users to obtain product information and website addresses by scanning the multidimensional bar code with their smartphone's camera. Unfortunately hackers and criminals are also using QR codes to trick users into installing malware, or handing over personal information. Before you scan another QR Code with your smartphone, check out our featured article on how to protect yourself from malicious QR codes being spread by criminals and hackers: Have you been the victim of this new type of attack? Let us know your experience in the comments section below: Protect Your Smartphone From Malicious QR Codes originally appeared on About.com Internet / Network Security on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 at 17:13:34. Permalink | Comment | Email this How to Scam-proof Your Brain
Can you spot a phishing scam e-mail from a mile away? Are you a human scam detector? The focus of this week's featured article is on How to Scam-proof Your Brain. In the article, you'll find some mental self-defense techniques that you can use to help develop your scam detecting "Spidey" sense. Check out the article in the link and then come back here and let us know (in the comments section below) what is the most convincing scam you have ever encountered? How to Scam-proof Your Brain originally appeared on About.com Internet / Network Security on Monday, January 16th, 2012 at 15:36:49. Permalink | Comment | Email this Google Earth Reveals the Devastation in Haiti Google responded to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week by working with satellite imagery company GeoEye to quickly make images of the destruction available in Google Earth and Google Maps. The images were taken at approximately 10:27 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, and could prove to be a helpful tool for aid organizations attempting to survey and assess the damage to Haiti's infrastructure. (Click on any of the images in the story to see a larger version; all show satellite images of areas in Haiti before and after the earthquake hit.)
Google Earth Reveals the Devastation in Haiti originally appeared on About.com Computing Center on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 08:46:47. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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