The relationship between Jerash private university English majors’ test strategies and their academic achievement level

Abstract EN

This study aims at investigating the relationship between the test strategies and the academic achievement of the fourth year English majors at Jerash Private University.

The sample of the study consisted of 50 male and female students randomly selected from a population of 167 fourth- year English majors enrolled at the English department of Jerash Private University.

The subjects were asked to fill in a questionnaire which included 30 items divided into three domains: test preparing strategies, test anxiety relieving strategies and test taking strategies.

The results revealed that the test-taking strategies, the test relieving strategies and the test preparing strategies occupied the first, the second and the third ranks successively.

The findings also revealed that there were significant differences among students’ test strategies attributed to their academic achievement levels.

Moreover, the results of this study showed significant relationship between test strategies and the students’ academic achievement levels.