What causes mind blanks during exams?

By Jared Cooney Horvath and Jason M Lodge. It’s a pattern many of us have likely experienced in the past.
You prep for an exam and all the information seems coherent and simple. Then you sit for an exam and suddenly all the information you learned is gone. You struggle to pull something up – anything – but the harder you fight, the further away the information feels. The dreaded mind blank. More...