A Study of Academic Anxiety of Higher Secondary School Students

The current research is about to study the academic anxiety of rural and urban higher secondary school students. The sample consisted of 180 students of higher secondary schools. The sample has been selected on the basis of random sampling technique. Academic anxiety scale of Dr. Mohd. Abid Siddiqui & Dr. Atieq Ul Rehman has been used for the data collection. The students read all the directions silently and carefully before they put any answer as mentioned on the test form. Students fill inventory within given time for analysing and interpreting the data. In the present study mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to compare mean difference in academic anxiety of rural and urban higher secondary school students. The result revealed a significant difference in academic anxiety of rural and urban higher secondary school students. As compared to urban higher secondary school students rural higher secondary school students were found to have significantly higher academy anxiety.