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The current study aimed to find out the differences in the degree of test anxiety between third year high school students repeaters and non-repeaters, where the reliance was on the description comparative approach, and the use of the test anxiety scale prepared by Ali, Al-Sinbati and Al-Aqbawi (2009), and it was applied to a sample of (40) students, who are (20) repeaters and (20) non-repeaters registered in high schools of Bousaada and its environs during the school year (2019/2020), and we reached the following results: 1) There are no statistically significant differences in the psycho-emotional dimension of test anxiety between the repeaters student and non-repeaters. 2) There are no statistically significant differences in the social dimension of the test anxiety between the repeaters students and non-repeaters. 3) There are no statistically significant differences in the physical dimension of test anxiety between the repeaters students and non-repeaters. 4) There are no statistically significant differences in the cognitive mental dimension of test anxiety between the repeaters students and non-repeaters. 5) There are no statistically significant differences in test anxiety between repeaters students and non-repeaters. The results were interpreted in the light of previous studies and finally the study was culminated in a number of suggestions. (Author’s abstract)