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Test Anxiety is our most prevalent academic handicap

The majority of students report being more stressed by tests and by schoolwork than by anything else in their lives.  About 18% of students have high test anxiety and another 18% have moderately high anxiety, making this the most prevalent scholastic handicap in our schools today.  Among college students on academic probation, as many as 80% are test anxiety impaired.

Test anxiety causes students to "freeze" or "go blank" on tests and fail to show how much they actually ?  

"Kristin would tutor her friends in algebra over lunch,
and then fail the test the next hour while her friends went on to pass