The Relationship between Chinese High School Students' Test Anxiety and Academic Performance during the National College Entrance Examination

¹ School of Open Learning and Education, East China Normal University, 200333, Shanghai, China
² Overseas Chinese Academy of Chiway, Suzhou, 215025, China
³ School of Public Policy and Management, Tianjin University of Commerce, 300133, Tianjin, China
⁴ School of Statistics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 401120, Chongqing, China

^* Corresponding author: 1910920108@mail.sit.edu.cn

Abstract

Under China's exam-oriented educational system, high school students are under high pressure, especially before they undertake the National College Entrance Examination. In China, the National College Entrance Examination is also given the meaning of the top priority in the life of most parents. This study focuses on the influence of Chinese high school students' test anxiety on their National College Entrance Examination results. The results show that the more anxious the examinees are, the less satisfactory their scores are. On the contrary, the less anxious they are, the better their scores are. Exam anxiety is negatively related to the scores of the National College Entrance Examination. This study has important research value for the field of high school education and psychological distress in China. It fills the gap in the research on the impact of college entrance examination anxiety on the scores of senior high school students, provides a reference for the follow-up research on the mechanism of intervention in high school students' anxiety, and also makes the society and school parents pay attention to the problem of high school students' exam anxiety.