قلق الامتحان لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانوية وعلاقته بالتحصيل
The research aims to identify exam anxiety among secondary school students and its relationship to their achievement. In order to achieve the research goal, the researcher used the descriptive, correlational approach due to its suitability to the nature of the study and its variables. The researcher identified secondary school students affiliated with the Bani Waleed Education Office as the research population, so that the study sample included: (50) secondary school students in Bani Waleed. The sample was selected by a simple random method, with (25) students from each secondary school, represented by the Lightning School and the Future Horizons School, affiliated with the Education Control Authority in Bani Waleed. After reviewing the previous literature, then preparing the research tool, which is a test anxiety scale prepared by “Gharbi Abdel Nasser” 2014, which consists of (33) items, and achievement tests for students, then applying it to the research sample. In light of the results, the researcher reached a number of results, the most important of which are the following: The results of the first question were: The study found that there is a relationship between test anxiety and achievement among the sample members of secondary school students, and this is due to the fact that the student tries in the exam to confirm success and prove his identity, and failure in the exam leads to the dissolution of the identity problem, the lack of self-affirmation, especially at this age stage because it is the stage of confirming identity. According to what was reported by Erikson, the study of children awakens in the parents their old academic problems and stimulates their personal desires and ambitions that they were unable to achieve. Every failure of the student in his studies is a source of great concern for the parents, who consider that academic failure is a destruction of the son’s future that may lead to It cracks his personality and raises anxiety among parents as well. (Published abstract)