Test Anxiety

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If one was to ask what the most stressful part of high school was to high school students, the answer that will most likely come up is big tests. High school students these days go through an immense amount of stress at this stage in their life. Students do not have enough time to balance all that they have on their plate; therefore, provoking stress to finish all the schoolwork and other activities. To add on to all this stress is the college admittance tests, which can push the student off the edge of sanity due to the deficit of the amount of time. While high stake testing such as the SATs and ACTs are beneficial to college admittance, these exams should not be weighed so heavily because some students are not good test takers, these high …show more content…

Some students can have test anxiety, which is a condition that affects one’s memory. During a test, the student with test anxiety will forget the material during the test, resulting in a poor grade (Test Anxiety 1). Test anxiety can destroy confidence and self-esteem from getting just one bad grade on a test because of the fear of getting another bad grade on a test (1). The fact is that a student may believe a high stake test will make or break one getting into college, which adds on pressure to the student in trying to get a perfect score on the high stake test. College admittance boards should not put this much pressure on one test because one test does not define a student’s perseverance and hard work. While, for those who have test anxiety or are just bad test takers, taking the SAT or ACT is not …show more content…

The biggest stress in a high school student’s life is, in most cases, school. Researchers have found that the time to have the most stress is in the pre-teen and teenager years (Rudolph 2). Teeanagers have to deal with so much in their life, that it can become quite stressful, especially with the school aspect. School work can be a huge factor to stress in a high school student’s life, especially high stake testing, so to minimize the stress in a teenager’s life, the pressure of doing good on every school related work should be decreased by lowering the stakes. School is not the only cause of stress to high school students, there are other outside sources of stress. Examples of stress from outside sources are family or friend issues, living conditions or the environment, or the stress of thinking about what one will do in the future, which is dependent on getting into a good college. There are many different beliefs for the cause of stress, such as distress responses caused by outside events, troublesome environments, and a person’s take on these conditions (Rudolph 1-2). Everybody has different types of stress, different stress levels, and different ways of dealing with the stress. There is only so much that a person can take when it comes to stress, if a person reaches the maximum for stress, the person will not know how to deal with all

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