Exam Anxiety: An Analytical Study in Burdwan District in West Bengal

This paper attempts to analyze the nature and extent of exam anxiety of students in some selected higher secondary level schools of West Bengal. The study covers three hundred students both in urban and rural areas encompassing 150 boys and 150 girls of Burdwan district in West Bengal. The results reveal that few factors have significant positive impact in enhancing exam anxiety while some are negative impact for reducing exam anxiety of students. A binary logit analysis has been used to determine relationship between exam anxiety and several factors associated with it. Moreover, students' 't' test has also been used to examine the assumed hypothesis whether any variation among gender base (i.e., among boys and girls) or area base (i.e., among village and town) exists or not. Finally, it can be concluded that the extent of exam anxiety of students is significantly affected by several socio-economic and cultural factors along with school's infrastructural facilities.