During this article, the authors describe to us what test anxiety is and how it can impact the student’s academic performance. Test anxiety can be defined as the physical conditions that people feel before they take a test. For example, some of these conditions could include headaches, nausea, or feelings of panic. One big factor that makes the students perform poorly is that they tend to worry about the test. By the students worrying about taking the test, it makes it harder for them to focus while they are actually taking the test. This is called cognitive test anxiety. Cognitive test anxiety is just an individuals’ cognitive reactions to evaluative situations before, after, or during a test. (Cassady and Johnson, 2001). Students that experience
