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Top 5 Reasons Why Students Fear Examinations by YhungPablo(m): 9:43am On Dec 07, 2016 |
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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Re: Top 5 Reasons Why Students Fear Examinations by YhungPablo(m): 11:39am On Dec 07, 2016 |
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