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ABSTRACT
TITLE
: ANXIETY AND ITS EFFECTS ON EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE ON SELECTED 1ST YEAR NEW ERA UNIVERSITY NURSING STUDENTS
PROPONENTS: : CHERRY DIANNE ABERGAS ARMAND JADE TAN YEAR/COURSE : 1ST YEAR BS-NURSING ADVISER
: PROF. ROSALIE CERVANTES
Anxiety has different effects on examination performances. Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress but when anxiety becomes excessive, it may cause medical problems or reduce the efficiency of examination performance. Students who experience stress become less confident than those who are following organized plan for studying. Because of this, the researchers conduct a study to help students manage their stress during examinations.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The main purpose of this study is to determine the different factors that cause anxiety during examination performance. This research entitled “Anxiety and Its Effect on Examination Performance on Selected 1st year New Era University Nursing Students” seeks to find the answers to the following questions: 1.) What are the factors that cause anxiety to the respondents? 2.) How do New Era University 1st year Nursing students handle their stress during examinations?
iv 3.) Why do some New Era University 1st year Nursing students experience stress during examinations? 4.) How do New Era University 1st year nursing students overcome their test anxiety? 5.) What kinds of technique are suggested to overcome test anxiety?
METHODS The researchers use descriptive design wherein the researchers are justified in describing the phenomena. The research design will be used assessing the different effects of test anxiety on all 1st year New Era University Nursing students.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS The study on the effects of anxiety on examination performance on selected 1st year New Era University Nursing students resulted on the following:
Table 1. The Suggested Factors that Causes Anxiety Majority of the total respondents suggests that the cause of anxiety in examination is cramming at the last minute, while minority of the respondents answered that poor time management is the cause of anxiety. TABLE 2. Ways that Help Students Handle their Stress Majority of the total respondents answered that being relaxed helps to handle stress during examinations, while minority of the respondents replied that thinking positively is also a helpful way of handling stress. TABLE 3. Ranking of Problems that Students Experience During Examinations Majority of the respondents responded that they experienced nervousness during
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TABLE 4. Techniques to Overcome Test Anxiety Majority of the respondents answered that reviewing lessons is an efficient way of overcoming test anxiety, also minority of the respondents replied that chatting with friends is effective in overcoming test anxiety.
TABLE 5. Suggested Techniques to Overcome Anxiety Majority of the respondents replied that removing negative ideas is the effective way of overcoming test anxiety. Also minority of the respondents answered that having sufficient rest time is important in overcoming test anxiety.
CONCLUSIONS Based on the findings, the researchers arrived at the following conclusions:
1. The factors that cause test anxiety on selected 1st year nursing students are poor time management and cramming at the last minute. These factors have a big effect on examination performance on the respondents. 2. Being relaxed and thinking positively are majority of the techniques that were chosen by the respondents to handle their stress before and during the examinations. 3. Increased heart rate or nervousness is the most experienced by the respondents during examinations and feeling nauseated is the less experienced by the respondents. 4. Reviewing your lessons is the most chosen technique to overcome test anxiety and next to it is watching television. These are the major techniques to overcome test anxiety that arrived to the study.
vi 5. Removing negative ideas is the effective way of overcoming test anxiety, some of the respondents are thinking negative during an examination that’s why they experience test anxiety. RECOMMENDATIONS On the basis of the findings and conclusions, the following recommendations were developed: 1. Having a good time management helps the students to manage their time well, and this helps them not to cram at the last minute of examination because of a good and well managed time. 2. Being relaxed and think positively is recommended to the students for them not to have an attack of test anxiety during examination. 3. Nervousness is mostly experienced by the students, that are why they need to relax during examination and not to be afraid of what might happen during the examination, this helps them to overcome anxiety. 4. Reviewing the lessons is recommended to the students for them not to panic during examination because of not reviewing. 5. Thinking positively is suggested to be efficient in taking the examinations.