Do you practice as much as possible in the day or two leading up to a competition or a test, or do you take it easy?
I'm competing in an ISI comp Saturday, although admittedly it's a fairly low-stress competition. I'm doing two events and have nobody against me in either. I told my coach I really just want to get past this and focus on USFS stuff.
My program was pretty good Tuesday night. I skated this morning, and it was decent. My spins were pretty terrible, but it was 7:30 a.m. I did end up re-working the last few seconds of it slightly, just to make sure the spin I end on isn't in the lutz corner, but I feel like that should be fairly easy to translate into the competition.
I know skating tomorrow night probably isn't going to improve any skills enough to make a difference Saturday, and it's a public so I won't even be able to run my program. But I still feel compelled to go and work on stuff that's not enough in my program, just for fun and to get in one last skate. My coach would probably tell me to not skate.