The spark that comes with a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) test is from the brain through the fingers on a QWERTY keyboard. Taking soft drinks can come with their own spark. Making them the most widely consumed beverage, soft drinks are made from a combination of water, sweeteners and flavor. Most of the time we are tempted to take a chilled bottle before a CBT test but we fail to acknowledge the consequences.

Here is a possible way your test can be ruined by taking a drink or so before. Test starts by 8:00am and you are feeling quite tensed ahead.

7:15am: probably at the exam venue, but since the test starts in the next 45 minutes, you suggest to take okpa (bambara groundnut) and pepsi (soft drink) to chill out a bit.


7:20am: At the eatery, order for one bottle of soft drink but the sales person decline by saying "sorry sir but there is no 30cl Pepsi Sir, we have only 50cl". No other option than to accept.


7:45am: Feeling ready for the test, perhaps more energized than your colleagues at the exam hall.


8:08am: you are felling great, the exam perhaps is not too hard, it is not too easy either and you are flying, 50 questions, already in number 25.



8:30am: suddenly you feel like you want to pee. The air condition kept blowing higher, not helping matters, the urge to use the toilet kept getting worse until you cant concentrate again. Probably feeling like your bladder is about to burst


8:45am: "Ma'am please can I use the rest room?" you call out to the human resource who was looking at you as if your head is paining you. "you know your time is still ticking" the HR reply, "just two minutes, I will be done with the rest room". you insist, then the HR gives you a go ahead but later changed his/her mind "Come back here!", "am sorry, it is either you complete your test and go or you quit the test. nobody is allowed to use the rest room when the test is still on"


8:52am: back before your monitor screen, questions starring at your face, probably you will be thinking about the experience with the HR. "What was she thinking?" you ask yourself, Was he/she thinking that you might hack their computer database through the rest room or what? you hiss loudly. Much to the attention of the other candidates seated around you. "please quit nagging around you are distracting others" yelled the HR.

9:10am: the test lasts for an hour and 30 minutes. you are probably rushing the answers, no room for thinking again. The spark from the soft drink which you drank is now controlling the CBT test.

9:20am: At this point you give up, scoring lower than what you can do. that is how a bottle of soft drink can ruin your day.


Soft drinks are carbonated, making it a bladder irritant, and can make you urinate more often than you normally would when consuming the same volume of a non-carbonated drink. Do you feel thirsty today? Are you in for a tensed work in about an hour? Are you working in an air conditioned room? Please just drink water.

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