Text Anxiety in Relation to Academic Achievement of Kasturiba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) Students – A Study

Abstract

Test anxiety is a typical experience in classrooms, changing the performance of students from school for college, as a whole being adults who must take job-related exams. Test anxiety can also move termed as anticipatory anxiety, examination anxiety that occurs in a situation like facing the exam. Indeed, there is a stirred upstate in physiological level causing over-arousal, tension and somatic symptoms and psychological level causing poor attention, deterioration in perception and thought fluency this can lead to worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophic experiences before or during test situations among the students. In this context, the research attempted to study the present problem, i.e., Text Anxiety about Academic Achievement of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya(KGBV) students. For the study, the researcher identified 100 students studying (8th and 9th standard) in KGBV schools of Kuppam and Gudipalle Mondal of Chittor district of Andhra Pradesh.