It's funny, but of all the everyday fears, I never had stage fright when speaking in public because I did it with the mindset that no one was going to eat me alive or beat me up if I said something wrong. Sometimes I gave interesting presentations, sometimes boring ones, but I never stressed about it much. However, what did stress me out were the multiple-choice exams at university because in secondary and primary school, we were assessed with four or five questions and that was it. When university started giving me multiple-choice exams of 20 questions or more, it caused me quite a bit of panic, and I almost never finished them (luckily, it wasn't a common practice among professors, who usually gave us essays rather than exams). I always preferred essay exams because multiple-choice exams used very similar terms, and it was almost random to find the correct answer (in fact, most students avoided that type of exam, just like me).