“…Test anxiety may be provoked from the lack of enough preparation (Cassady & Johnson, 2002;Moses, 2023;Pitta, 2021), social pressure and fear of not meeting some expectations (Moses, 2023), parental overprotection (Yang, 2023) or lack of parental support (Pitta, 2021), striving for perfectionism (Baghaei & Cassady, 2014;Moses, 2023;Pitta, 2021), inadequate learning strategies, ineffective coping strategies, especially procrastination (Cassady & Johnson, 2002;Desai et al, 2021;Moses, 2023;Pitta, 2021), time pressure (Moses, 2023) and poor time management (Pitta, 2021), negative past experiences related to exam situations, the importance of exam consequences, negative social comparison (Moses, 2023), low self-esteem (Moses, 2023;Pitta, 2021), feeling of inferiority (Pitta, 2021), low self-confidence (Moses, 2023) for a specific task (Cassady & Johnson, 2002), unfamiliar test formats (Moses, 2023), high trait anxiety (Burhan et al, 2020;Cassady & Johnson, 2002;Moses, 2023), high generalized anxiety (Moses, 2023), high state anxiety in situations of communication with teachers (Topova, 2023), high state anxiety in situation of answering questionnaires (Mur et al, 2022), pessimism and feeling of hopelessness (Moses, 2023;Pitta, 2021), lack of control over the exam process (Pitta, 2021), etc.…”