A little anxiety before a test improves your concentration and alertness. Excessive worrying, or test anxiety can lower your test score. It is possible for students with test anxiety to get themselves ...

Test anxiety impacts millions of people and can be especially enhanced for college freshmen facing midterm and final exams. Midterms and first semester finals are their first real exposure to what ...

In education circles, it’s popular to rail against testing, especially timed exams. Tests are stressful and not the best way to measure knowledge, wrote Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at ...

It is not unusual for students of all ages to feel nervous before an exam, test, or quiz. However, when that fear becomes overwhelming and affects a person’s test performance, they may have test ...

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Working with middle and high school students, this teacher witnessed a marked transformation in her students’ feelings and anxiety around taking tests by making one small change in how she approached ...

Washington, DC -- Schools are taking exam anxiety more seriously now that standardized tests have become crucial to determining their performance under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Research ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia students in divisions across the Commonwealth are preparing for state testing in the coming weeks. While this time of year can bring stress and anxiety. 13News Now spoke with a ...