A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Coping Strategies of Examination Anxiety among Tenth Standard Students in Selected Schools at Hassan

Very few people enjoy exams and most students experience some anxiety from time to time while revising and during the exams themselves. This anxiety can be helpful in motivating students to study and in improving performance, but very occasionally; it can lead students to feel paralyzed and unable to perform to the best of their ability. Exam anxiety is a set of responses that include excessive worry, depression, nervousness, and irrelevant thinking to a class or stimuli from an individual’s experience of assessment/test and outcome. It is experienced by many students while undertaking exam. There are four main areas of reported stresses which can contribute to exam anxiety including life style issue, lack of required information, studying style and psychological factors.