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 ...

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 ...

Shanks and a team of four researchers wanted to find out whether quizzes exacerbate test anxiety. The team collected 24 studies that measured students’ test anxiety and found that, on average, ...

Students of all ages can develop anxiety around standardized tests. A University of Missouri child psychiatrist shares advice on how to help them.

Reducing test anxiety is a feat Rebecca Lendyak-McMahon says takes intention. She says every student should walk into test day feeling confident and prepared.

Reducing test anxiety is a feat Rebecca Lendyak-McMahon says takes intention. She says every student should walk into test day feeling confident and prepared.

Test anxiety is a real problem, affecting 25% to 40% of U.S. students. Anxiety, along with academic stress, can appear as physical symptoms (such as headaches, nausea and sleeplessness) and ...