So if I have high test anxiety, am I more likely to do worse in exams, have lower self-esteem? Or does it work the other way around, that bad performance, I tend to worry or get stressed about the things that I'm not very good at?

Yeah, I think it's an open question.

I saw some really interesting research a couple of years ago by John Jerram, who works at the Institute of Education.

He was looking, I think, at GCSE scores and the relationship of test anxiety there.

Yeah.

And he basically found that there was no relationship between how well you did on your GCSEs and test anxiety.

So if we sort of just unpack that, what's the sort of, that could indicate, or maybe test anxiety doesn't affect academic attainment at all, but actually I think probably more likely what it suggests is that that effect is across the whole distribution.

Yeah.