Even though this student studied, did her homework, and even asked questions, she was not able to get passing grades. Each time, the student did not perform well on an exam; the feelings of anxiety and dread she felt about taking another test stressed her out. One of the statements made was about how this can actually play a role in how well a person actually does on a test. If a person has failed or did not do very well on previous tests, their thoughts of failure may actually play a role in their poor performance on the nesting test. I think it was Mike who said, “you choose not to think straight.” In order to step back from the feeling of fear, a person must think correctly in order to think affectively. In other words, I take this to mean that any student or I should think positively no matter what happened in the