Stating that students experience anxiety in exams or exam-related issues, İstanbul Gelişim University (İGÜ) Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences (İİSBF) Department of Psychology Specialist Clinical Psychologist Ünal Erdem Elli said, some physical symptoms such as sweat and sweating are also accompanied. The individual is so mentally engaged with the perception of threat that he has difficulty focusing on anything other than his own anxiety. The result is a loss of concentration, which usually leads to less success than usual. Some students are so uncomfortable with this feeling of anxiety that they start to avoid the exam and even the activities that remind the exam, such as trial exams or test-solving and related activities in general. This of course increases the risk of failure and creates a negative vicious circle for the individual. The student does not prepare for the exam because he / she is worried, the level of anxiety rises further because it is not prepared and it is perceived by the student as a vicious circle that cannot be removed ”.
NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE TIPS OF ANXIETY
“In general, we see test anxiety in students who have been above average in education, öğrenim said Elli, an expert clinical psychologist.“ This shows that the anxiety these students feel is li not accurate ’. Because, in fact, these students are not generally unsuccessful, but still have unrealistic anxiety about failing. The basis of the psychological help process with the students who get help to cope with the test anxiety is mostly to examine this perception of unreal failure and instead to give a more realistic perspective. At the same time, it is important for students to recognize the clues of anxiety and help them to use methods such as breathing and relaxation exercises to control their anxiety-triggered physical symptoms. ”
A THE FAMILY AND THE ENVIRONMENT HAVE IMPORTANT IMPACTS ON ANXIETY FORMATION ”
Elli argues that the family and the environment in general have an important role in the test anxiety. As students see the failure of the exam as synonymous with life-long failure, it is understandable that their expectations about the exam result create anxiety in them. Parents or teachers are often the ones who see the failure of the exam as a disaster. Therefore, we can say that the environment and the family have important effects on exam anxiety
