A Cross Sectional Study on the Effect of Learned Helplessness on Test Taking with Reference to Children of Jammu and Kashmir

The present study was conducted to examine the effect of learned helplessness on test taking. We prepared two sets of questionnaires, one having very difficult questions and other very easy questions. We found that the students who took the test that begin with difficult questions become easily frustrated and possibly doubt their intellectual ability. This results in the participants missing easy questions when compared with the students who took the test that begin with easy questions. This study can also be applied to other classroom tests and standardized tests where learned helplessness could negatively affect the test scores.