Test Anxiety: True or False?

1. Students are born with test anxiety.

False

What are some causes of test anxiety?

2. Test anxiety is a mental illness.

False

Test anxiety is a feeling.

3. Test anxiety cannot be reduced.

False

What are some ways to reduce test anxiety?

4. Any level of anxiety is bad.

False

Why might having some anxiety be good?

5. All students who are not prepared will have test anxiety.

False

How can this be?

6. Students with test anxiety cannot learn math.

False

How can this be?

7. Students who are well prepared will not have test anxiety.

False

But, might it reduce anxiety?

8. Very intelligent students and students taking high-level classes, such as calculus, do not have test anxiety.

False

But they’re so smart, why would they be anxious?

9. Attending class and doing my homework should reduce all of my test anxiety.

False

But might it reduce it some?

10. Being told to relax during a test will make you relax.

False

Why not?

11. Doing nothing about test anxiety will help it go away.

False

What might you do?

12. Reducing test anxiety will guarantee better grades.

False

But why wouldn’t it?

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