How do you get in the "zone"?

[saman]

my strategy doesn't really involve anything. i just clear my mind for as long as i can afford to before the event in question and take a few seconds to feel completely normal before diving in. it's worked so far. i do rehearse for presentations and such sometimes, though well before the actual event and not right before.

[Buffalobiian]

I tried out a new strategy a few days ago. The plan is to miss your first bus, so you catch one that's going to run into a huge traffic jam (an unforseen one). You arrive 10 minutes late for it, but make sure it's at a place you've never been to before, and don't find out beforehand exactly where it is. You're so busy asking people and running to the exam room that you really don't think or stress about the actual event at all. In the end, you sit down, scribble a late-exam form, and gun it.

I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

[Animeniax]

I've tried that method before, and I have to agree with your not recommending it. It's hard to concentrate when your balls are sweating that bad.

[Eurasian]

I'm glad at least you got to take the exam!!!
Once, some guy came running into the lecture hall late to an exam and the prof wouldn't allow him to take the exam since someone has finished the exam and left the lecture hall. 60% beats 0% in my books anyday.
Edit: Not that I'm saying you got a 60%! I'm sure you did well!! =D

[Animeniax]

How can you be so sure he did well? Now you're just messing with his mind.

The situation you described sounds like a cheating scam to me. Obviously the guy who left early provided the test and answers to the guy who arrived late. It's the oldest trick in the book.

[Buffalobiian]

I studied heaps for that one, and I was pretty set, so I don't think I would have done too badly. I could report here when marks come to see how well that technique works. There's one that's more worrying, and it was just because of the sheer amount of material. (Semester 1's notes totaled 13.2cm x A4 pages )

[Eurasian]

The situation you described sounds like a cheating scam to me. Obviously the guy who left early provided the test and answers to the guy who arrived late. It's the oldest trick in the book.

I think the dude just overslept. He had bed hair and he smelled like bed. By bed, I mean the stench that builds up in your bed sheets and pillow after continual usage without washing them. Gross.

[Animeniax]

I think the dude just overslept. He had bed hair and he smelled like bed. By bed, I mean the stench that builds up in your bed sheets and pillow after continual usage without washing them. Gross.

You're way too naive for your 70 years. He's a pro, is all. He has his act down, but that was one prof who knows the players and the game. He wasn't as easily fooled by tousled hair and funky b.o. The prof was the one in the zone that day. I wonder how he prepared?

[python862]

He ate his Wheaties.