Anxiety Levels of High School Students during Exam Preparation
This article discusses the theoretical foundations of anxiety in high school students in the process of preparing for exams. We studied the psychological and pedagogical literature and concluded that high school students experience negative emotional states when preparing for the unified state exam. We also studied the level of anxiety of high school students in the process of preparing for exams, developed and tested a program of psychological preparation of high school students for the unified state exam. After all, high school students preparing for state exams, as well as people from other social groups who stand between different stages of life, are particularly susceptible to anxiety and have a chance of having an increased level of anxiety. The aim of the study is to study the level of anxiety in high school students during exams. Based on the relevance of the study, the following questions were addressed: to determine the level of anxiety of high school students by survey and methodology, to make a comparative analysis of anxiety between students with different academic performance, to analyze the results. The hypothesis of the study is as follows: passing exams is perceived by high school students as an alarming situation, which increases the level of anxiety. The research methods are analysis of the literature on the topic under study, study and generalization of the experience of researchers, processing of the studied information.