Educational institutions rely on the exams to assess the knowledge level of the students in the various stages of education that allows students to move to a new phase academy and get academic certificate they want. It has become the tests constitute an obstacle in the way of students to realize their dreams of getting a decent job dependent at the academic achievements, especially the final exams because the questions are the comprehensive curriculum. This study can help them to overcome their anxiety during examinations, so that they can perform better and achieve good grades. The current research revealed that most of the students had high level of test anxiety and academic self-regulated. There was no statistically significant difference between male and female in their test anxiety also the result showed that there was a statistically significant difference between male and female in their academic self-regulated Pearson’s regression showed that self - regulated did not predict test anxiety.
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Test Anxiety, Academic Self-Regulated Learning, Foundation Students
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