If I feel anxious during a test, I have test anxiety. This is not true.
Research shows everybody feels anxious during a test.
People who have test anxiety do not feel any more anxious or experience higher levels of physiological arousal than non-test anxious individuals. Test anxious individuals tend to concentrate on their anxiety or physiological arousal more than non-test anxious individuals. If I experience test anxiety, I will do poorly on all my exams. For the most part this is not true. Research shows that test anxious individuals do not perform more poorly than non-test anxious individuals.