Al-Hikmah University Journal

Examination anxiety among students in Nigeria remains a major concern among education stakeholders. The phenomenon has been established with highly prevalent touch among Nigerian students with causal factors scattered around prevailing circumstances and individualistic experiences. This paper, a theoretical type however, examined “Antecedent of Examination Anxiety among Students: The Way-Forward”, and relied on existing literature and theoretical perspectives that explored variables under review. This study has therefore offered a nuanced understanding of the complex factors interplay for an explanation of students’ examination anxiety experiences with a prime aim of providing lasting solutions to the menace. Based on the revealing facts of challenges of examination anxiety among Nigerian students, it was recommended among other things that; students should be encouraged to adopt the option of counselling for proper guidance, students should be trained on how to apply the principle of good time management, the government should make learning environment be conducive for all learners, and the school counsellor should liaise with the appropriate stakeholders to identify the students with the challenge on time and give necessary assistance on it.