Young people can have a hard time with increasing excitement and anxiety days before the university entrance exam. Basically, what is Anxiety? Why does it occur? What meaning do I attach to this situation? It is very important to raise awareness with the answers to the questions and to establish connections with the cause and effect relationship.
Anxiety, being anxious is the name given to a fear of uncertain cause. The most basic feature that distinguishes anxiety from fear is that it is not a physical threat. The emotional response we give when we feel anxious is not the same as our response when faced with a threat.
We can actually talk about the same emotions when it comes to adolescents and their exam stress. Exam thoughts can cause “anxiety of failure” in adolescents.
When we say exam anxiety, it can be briefly defined as intense anxiety that prevents the effective use of the learned information and causes a decrease in success.
Exam anxiety is a special form of anxiety. Anxiety symptoms are the emotional and behavioral reactions accompanying anxiety about failures.
In exam anxiety, not the exam itself, but the way the exam is perceived by the person creates anxiety. For this reason, some young people are very comfortable and successful in exams, while others may be anxious and unsuccessful.
Although perception, thoughts about the exam and where we put the exam in our lives are a very important detail, invisible anxiety factors such as family attitude and social environment are the most important issues. The thought that the exam is the most important stage of our lives, the thought that if success is not achieved in that exam, the thought that he will not be able to achieve success in any area of his life, the expectation of financial and moral effort and the expectation of receiving it in return can push young people to intense anxiety and fear.
underlying thoughts; high level of academic success expectation, low self-confidence, irrational beliefs, success status, personality traits, lack of planning, social environment… etc.
The most important consideration that needs to be instilled is the evaluation of the students' interests, abilities and study habits and the knowledge acquired by the exams. The exam is not a personality assessment test, it just displays knowledge � Measuring is a stage.
However, if we instill the awareness that success is not the last stop, and even that it is a process, their anxiety will be at normal levels.
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