Abstract            Volume:6  Issue-8  Year-2018         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Academic success can be measured in various terms and academic grades or Grade Point Average (GPA) obtained in test is important objective measures of it. Though GPA at any level of education is important, school GPA is much important in that it determines career choice as well as human success (Bacon and Bean, 2006). School GPA is determined by various factors and test anxiety is one of the most reported factors. Test anxiety is a type of anxiety that students experience when they encounter test situation. Researchers have established test anxiety as one of the pervasive conditions contributing in academic performance and success. Test anxiety interacts with many other variables like academic achievement motivation, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence and adjustment. Present study was aimed at investigating prevalence and correlates of test anxiety. This study was conducted in 38 students studying in tenth grade at one private and one government owned school of Bhaktapur district, Nepal. Test anxiety inventory developed by Spielberger (1980), Academic Achievement Motivation Test developed by Sharma (2006), Generalized Self Efficacy scale developed by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1995), Brief Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Davies, Lane, Devonport and Scott (2010) and Adjustment Inventory for School Students (Sinha and Singh, 2013) were used to measure test anxiety and related constructs. Tests were at first translated in Nepali by following rigorous translation process. Result of the study showed that 76.3% of the students were suffering from some level of test anxiety. Result further showed that private school students had significantly high test anxiety as compared to government school students. Also, test anxiety did not differ significantly with respect to sex, type of family, academic achievement motivation, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence and adjustment.

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