I didn’t realize how much panic was affecting my NCLEX scores

Looking back, I think half my problem wasn’t even content. I knew more than I thought I did, but the second I opened a qbank I’d panic, rush, overthink, change answers, and basically sabotage myself 😭 I kept thinking the solution was to study harder, so I’d add more videos, more notes, more questions. But honestly it just made my brain feel noisier. What finally helped me was slowing down enough to actually understand why I was getting questions wrong instead of immediately moving on to the next one. I also stopped trying to use 10 different resources at once and followed something more structured for a while. That’s when I finally stopped feeling like I was drowning every time I studied. Anyone else feel like anxiety made them perform way worse than what they actually knew?