The Types Of Anxieties, Learners May Face During Examinations

The Types of Anxieties, Learners May Face During Examinations. Anxiety can be of many types. Be it language anxiety, test anxiety or even speech anxiety and social anxiety. Unfortunately this uncomfortable feeling is something that manifests in people all the time and especially at times when it would be best they are calm for a better outcome. This analysis of anxiety is based purely on test anxiety and how learners respond in exam conditions. It is because of this type of anxiety that students end up performing poorly for exams and tend to drop out of their education, i.e.; Anxiety = poor results=lack of will to continue. Many researchers have found that worry about being socially rejected or simply just failing, results in students†¦show more content†¦So this indicates physiological and behavioural negative responses as stated above. Morris and Liebert study (1970) found that worrying had a greater negative impact with performance in the test condition than the emotional responses, in a group of high school students. This tells us that it is one’s thoughts about the whole test ordeal that has a bigger effect on performance. In other studies conducted on the relationship between anxiety and result of the test/evaluation, the source of test anxiety has been found in the students’ poor preparation. Ie poor preparation/organisation=test anxiety=poor performance. Several research studies have established that, highly test anxious students have compromised study habits compared to the low anxious students (Culler and Holahan, 1980). This is also in sync with Hembree (1988), where his findings suggested the same, in that lack of good study skills manifested in poor performance under evaluative conditions, which leads to feelings of increased anxiety. So, all this points to the fact that if one was to prepare adequately then it would manifest in ones confidence in their ability to perform and in turn would enable them to perform efficiently, producing a good outcome of success. The level of one’s natural intellect does not really serve much relevance on this point, as even the intelligent students could be affected by exam jitters resulting in the same manifestations.