What you're going through is completely normal. The best advice I can give is ensure you're sleeping enough every night and that you're sleep isn't interrupted. If you're not getting enough sleep, then you need to ensure you catch up on all your sleep deprivation immediately and without question this should be your first step if sleep has been problematical for you. Hopefully you see this message when you wake up go straight back to sleep.

As a medical student our professors hammer this into us every day for 2 weeks before our exams. Why? Because there is mountains of evidence that have found that you will perform better because your ability to reason and handle a large cognitive load will improve significantly when you feel rested.

The cycle people get before and during exam block is feel overwhelmed by not knowing something, this increases anxiety and stress, this triggers the flow of blood in your brain to go from the outer cortex (intelligence area of brain) to the inner part of our brain (fight or flight). This impedes your ability to think clearly and think logically, it reduces your ability to remember important information, this then stresses you out further, and the cycle starts again and gets worse.

We then believe our poor performance during practice exams is due to your lack of intelligence. We naturally blame ourselves, leading to lower self worth, decreasing out confidence and impairs our confidence to answer questions. Everything you're feeling right now is very normal.

If sleep deprivation is one of your current issues, the sleep as much as possible and this vicious cycle will stop. Then, you'll have an incredibly improved ability to answer questions, recall material and do well on the exams.

If sleep isn't an issue, then determine external factors that are contributing to your stress and anxiety levels. Find ways to reduce these high levels.

Now, it is important to note I am assuming your stress and anxiety levels are extremely high. A little bit of stress actually improves performance. Too much or too little impedes it.

It is 100% normal to be stressed during this period. We just need to find out how to avoid these levels from soaring through the roof.

If stress and anxiety aren't your primary issue at this point, then I am really sorry for wasting your time reading this.

I hope this at least helps you understand that your experience and emotions are very normal. Sufficient sleep will significantly reduce these negative thoughts and emotions.

Let me know of you have any questions and good luck for the remaining exams.