Always remember your driving fundamentals and drive 80% of your max. Stress driving skills, like shooting are perishable.

1. High visual horizon.
2. Shuffle steer, avoid biometric lock-up.
3. High entry to turns, low apex, high exit. Good eye placement will help with this. Stay one step ahead. Look to your exit before you hit the apex. Where you look is where you are going to go.
4. Smooth throttle application
5. Straight line braking before the turn, coast through the apex, smooth acceleration out. Don't be afraid to threshold brake. Never enter turns at maximum... efficient driving wins over speed every time. Remember, most runners (including "sports car" kids) can't drive worth a crap, so don't follow their lines.
6. 3-4 second space cushion (again NEVER follow suspect's lines.)
7. Clear those intersections, especially the blind ones.
8. Drive within policy.
9. Transmit updates in straightaways... never in a turn. Windows up.
10. Call out approaching intersections, not the ones you have passed.

Combat breathing helps but is not always possible using the radio. The adrenaline dump is inevitable, minimizing it's effects any way you can will help you avoid tunnel vision and "panic radio." We only have to come in second.

The real cadet killer in EVOC is skid pan.  If you can pass that, everything else can be overcome.  90% of my cadet failures were skid pan.

You have to know your limits to drive within them.  Some cadets need to be reined in and some need to be pushed.  One of the best lessons is losing control of the vehicle.  Cones die so people don't have to.  

It was odd for me too. Just practice when you are driving around.  It helps to go into "EVOC mode" while driving during the academy.  Practice your steering, eye placement and lines when you are putting around town.  Use your safe available roadway and practice.  

Remember, anything you make a habit of doing will be one less thing you need to worry about when you need to multi-task during evaluations.