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Hi,

I just completed a degree in physics. I ended up with a grade below what i hoped for, which was highly disappointing considering the effort i put in.

But I never really enjoyed the subject once I got to university and very nearly dropped out in my second year due to my highly stressful approach to the subject. Prior to and during my third and final year i decided to completely change my learning tactics and work on stress and anxiety management (to what i felt was a huge success!). I learnt to enjoy my subject and was doing well until i got really ill for the last 6 weeks of classes before the revision period... As a result I was forced to cram for my exams and did very badly in them (even worse than i expected :S).

I've wanted to switch to economics for 2 years now and am about to enrol on a conversion course which dumps me straight into 3rd year lectures, so i will have a lot to catch up on!

The thought of taking exams again really terrifies me and has made a massive impact on my confidence... I just feel like i have serious memory issues because i tend to do reasonably well on coursework but not exams although i don't usually get scared of exams... i dont think i had a fantastic intuition for physics problems, so maybe i just wasnt good at them and therefore not good at the exams?

I just wonder if I should be that afraid of economics exams, I started to really love the subject at A2 level more than physics but I'm afraid that it will be too much of a cram and that I will struggle since the entire year is based on the final exams :S

If anyone has any advice or similar experiences, your thoughts would be greatly appreciated :)