Experimenting on Smart Nerve Wreck Friends During Exams

During the trials (Which ends tomorrow, thank God.), I noticed a peculiar thing about a friend of mine. I realized that this thing happens during all the examination periods. He is a smart guy, and yet his worrying attitude doesn’t match his grades. We all have that kinda friend, right? I decided to experiment on my assumptions:

Aim: To determine the effects of the level of worry of a person on the grade of their exam results

Hypothesis: The more worried the person is, the higher the grade of the exam result

Variables:

Manipulated: The difficulty of the exams

Responding: The level of anxiety of the person

Fixed: The person

Apparatus and Materials:

• A human lab rat nerve wreck anxious friend
• A chair
• A table
• Exam papers (Three subjects based on friend’s skill)
• Pen
• Clock
• Malicious laugh track or any anxiety increasing device (Optional)
• Rope (Optional)

Procedure:

1. Place the human lab rat nervous wreck friend on a chair.
2. Push the chair to the table.
3. Place easy exam paper on the table.
4. Give the friend a pen and order instruct him/her to finish the test within the allotted time. Another subject person (Me) is needed to take the exam as well.
5. Wait for an hour or so.
6. Collect the exam paper, whether he/she is finished or not.
7. Observe the subject friend and record on table.
8. Mark the exam paper and record the grade on the table.
9. Repeat the experiment with medium-level and hard-level exam paper.

Precautions:

•         If the lab rat friend is unwilling, tie him/her to the chair on the rope.
•         If he/she does not display much anxiety during the exam, the laugh track/anxiety-increasing device is used.

Tabulation of Data:

Level of Exam	Anxiety Level (%)		Exam Grade (%)
	Me	Nervous Wreck Friend	Me	Nervous Wreck Friend
Easy	20	48	75	84
Medium	46	63	69	89
Hard	52	82	64	90

Conclusion:

The hypothesis is accepted.  The more worried the person is, the higher the grade of the exam result.

However, the hypothesis does not apply to the normal subject (Me).

  I’m sure all of you can relate to this. It's not easy having this type of person as a best friend. But hey, what's the point of being called a best friend if you can't put up with the downsides of people, right? :)

 Plus, it's fun to fool around with his anxiety. XD