Anxiety of Boys& Girls of Standard X During Exams

Everyone feels anxious now and then. It‟s a normal emotion. We may feel nervous when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or before making an important decision. Anxiety during Exam is also a common phenomena that involves feeling of tension or uneasiness that occur before exams, but if a student is too much anxious its harmful for his/her exam. Optimum level of exam anxiety is a requirement for sufficient outcome in the examination. Very low exam anxiety will reflect on low level of achievement and obviously the consequently high level of anxiety will pull down the level of outcome. Hence optimum level of anxiety is needed as an impetus to raise the outcome. Different studies had shown different findings in the gender difference in the exam anxiety. So, the investigators after having a thorough study about these studies felt an interest in finding whether there is a significant difference in the exam anxiety of boys and girls of Standard X. It is inferred from the study that there is significant difference between girls and boys of Standard X in their exam anxiety. It shows that girls have significantly greater exam anxiety than boys.