I was teaching last night and while rounding up the children to start their barre work, I over heard a group of girls talking about exams and how some really enjoyed them and how others felt they didn't perform to their best standard while feeling under pressure in an exam. Some of us are better at living up to expectations when under pressure than others, and lots of children react differently in certain situations.
Sometimes we have tears before they go in if they get too worked up and start to panic before they go in, others tend to go very quiet, and you also have the type of children they will over practice just before an exam and run all their classwork over and over again in panic mode.
When I am in an exam helping with music it is also very interesting to see how some children that don't perform in class all of a sudden perform in an exam which is also nice to see, but others can obviously do the opposite, and not perform in an exam. I find lots of children make little mistakes in exams just with the nerves but most of the time children come out and say it wasn't as bad as what they thought it would be. At the end of the day the examiner is there to see their best qualities and help them work or certain things they are weaker on. I might go into how children behave differently in exams, and find out more about what children do and don't like about them and compare exams with actually performing on stage as lots of children react differently to going on stage too but always have the same type of emotions or panic as well.
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