Abstract:
In facing the national exams, students often have feelings of anxiety, and even some who suicide
because of failure to pass the national exam. Because of the inability to overcome anxiety, the
teenagers will have to use their own ways to solve the problem. This study aims to determine the
relationship between the students’ anxiety and the students’ coping level in national exams. This
study used descriptive correlative design involving 97 respondents was taken total population
technique. The results showed experiencing majority of respondents (65%) had high anxiety and
some of the respondents (59%) using adaptive coping in dealing with anxiety. Based on the results
of chi square test shows that there is a relationship between students' level of anxiety with coping in
the face of national examinations (p = 0.000; α 0:05). This study has implications for the school so
that research results can be used as evidence base in preparing a plan to reduce student anxiety in
the face of national exam
