Measures used by medical students to reduce test anxiety.

Objective: To determine test anxiety in medical students and to assess the measures used by them to reduce it.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in August 2009 at the Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, and involved 388 medical students who were voluntary participants. The 10-item Westside Test Anxiety Scale, was used to measure anxiety and the pre-designed questionnaire asked the students about the frequent measures used by them to overcome anxiety during exams and their past Grade Point Average.