Quite often, intelligent schoolchildren receive school grades that just do not appear to reflect their intelligence. These children do their schoolwork, take part in the classroom, but still get lousy test scores. Parents frequently misjudge lousy scores on exams as lack of study and preparation, but this frequently is not true. Often,
anxiety over tests is a significant source of low grades.
Young people who have test
anxiety typically study at home until they could answer the test questions backwards and forwards. But when they walk into the classroom and sit down to take the test, their minds freeze. They cannot recall the concepts that, only a moment before, was clear in their minds. They develop performance
anxiety, and are able to consider nothing but the likelihood of failure.
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