Behavioral Cognitive Counseling for Reducing Test Anxiety Among University Students

This study was conducted due to the absence of proper guidance and counseling service for solving academic problem at Ma'soem University. Anxiety is a problem that often occurs in the education world and is experienced by students at many levels, including university students. Out of many types of anxiety, test anxiety seems to be the most anxiety often occurs among the students. The current study was aimed at reducing test anxiety experienced by the second-semester students of Information system department of Ma'soem University in the academic year of 2018/2019. The present study was categorized as a quantitative study. This was a quasi-experimental study with nonequivalent Pretest-Posttest control group design. The samples of the study were selected through simple random sampling technique. The research instrument used an anxiety questionnaire to face the test. The data analysis technique uses the dependent t-test. The finding of the study showed that statistically, behavioral cognitive counseling is effective for reducing test anxiety among the sample of study.