According to a study published recently in the British Journal of Psychology , the anxiety caused in some students when facing a test is not only not harmful, but it also makes short-term memory work better and better scores are obtained . According to Matthew Owens, from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), experiments show that a little anxiety can be a boost that helps motivate us to achieve better academic results.
Although we tend to think that people who get nervous when having to pass an oral or written test always have it more complicated when it comes to obtaining results, the work indicates that, for those who have a good memory, feeling anxiety is directly related to obtaining better grades.
