Testing over time or testing on the day

[Tiger1962]

At my former school, we would have a class set aside that would be an evaluation and while that wasn't the final grading decision, it supposedly let our instructor know what we needed more work on. We'd take a few more classes to work on the weak spots and then a couple weeks later it would be testing day.

I have no problem with a testing session. Being nervous is part of the deal, but I've learned to channel that nervousness into energy and my technique ended up being stronger.

[white owl]

Actually for my dan testing my instructors did both over a few weeks which I did not realize it at the time. Then I had a 3 hour class for my final test. When my instructors test the kyu ranks they do a pretest before the real test.