If you regularly become excessively
nervous
before and during an important exam, you
may have “testophobia”. It is mostly called
”
examinophobia” or “exam fever”. It is a
very common phenomenon among
students
most especially when an important
examination is at their door step. It is
very
disastrous that it affect them
psychologically, socially, emotionally and
cognitively. It affects many people of all
ages and intelligence – elementary
students, secondary students and even
university students.
It is not something that can be easily
eliminated so far there is still what we
called EXAMINATION in existence. In most
cases, it is caused by the fear of failing an
exam and some other reasons which I will
highlight below.

1. Inadequate preparation.
Inadequate preparation is one of the
ultimate inbuilt of fear into students’
mind
when an examination is approaching. This
in most cases occur to students who have
not covered a vast area of the course or
subject syllabus. It also affect those who
are
not active in classes or a class of students
who are not properly taught. This could
be
due to their lack of understanding or the
ineffective way they are been thought in
the class.
It could also be as a result of dyslexia,
memory lock, psychological stress, panic
attack, etc. The students who find
themselves in any of the above ‘bracket’
always find their hearts beat profoundly
anytime they hear the word
“Examination”.



2. Bad Orientation From Those Before
Them.
Sociologists made us know that people are
always influence by what they see or hear
in their environment. This is also the case
when it comes to the question “why do
students fear examination?”. Students like
to hear history from those who have
passed
through a course or an examination
before
them so that they can have a preview of
what it looks like. These seniors mostly
use
this to intimidate them and as a result of
this create fear into their hearts.
This solemnly depends on what they are
telling them and how they are saying it.
In
cases whereby they tell them “no one has
ever passed this course” or “don’t expect
anything bigger than D in this course
even
if you are a god” this easily made them
anxious even before the exam comes.



3. Irrational and fallacious believes.
Some students minds are full of all strains
of fallacious and irrational believes. Fears
like “if I fail, my parents will kill me” or
“I
must score 100% or I am worthless”. Also,
catastrophe believes like ” no matter how
I
prepare, I will fail the subject”. These
believes also made students to be panic
about examinations.



4. Pressure.
Pressure contributes lot of fear into
students’ heart doing an examination. It
could be pressure from parents, teachers,
relatives, guidance etc. It makes them to
be
shivery doing exams. It is almost the same
with irrational believes because they are
mostly influence by the pressure given to
them.



5. The fear of failing.
Another reason why students fear exams
is
the fear of failing. The fear that they may
not score up to their desire or the pass
mark always create a very high degree of
fear in them. It is something that keep
them worrying almost every time to the
extent that it drains their ability to read.
M.
P. Ossa was once asked “what is the cause
of examination fear in students?”. He
simply replied “I think for a lot of
students
it is the fear of failure rather than the
exam itself which causes all the anxiety”
and that’s just the truth.

source https://studentsbase./2016/11/15/top-5-reasons-whystudents-fearexaminations/

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