The relationship between test anxiety and Saudi student's achievement in English

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between test-anxiety and the students achievement test in English at the third grade secondary school in Jeddah.

The sample study is seven hundred and three students.

The instruments used are an anxiety-test scale and achievement test.

The findings show that there is no significant correlation between the anxiety-test and the students' performance at the achievements English test.

The results of the anxiety test scale show that Literary major students are more anxious about the English test than scientific major students.

However, there is no statistical significant correlation among the target students concerning the educational supervision centres.