Causes Of Academic Anxiety Among Tertiary Institution Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS OF KWARA STATE]

Stay focused
    One way to keep your concentration is to take breaks, but make sure they are scheduled ones. Building a 15 minutes (fifteen minutes) breaks in after 45 minutes (forty-five minutes) of studying our help your mind stay fresh and focused, get a change of scenery by leaving the room you house been working in. Exercise is a great way to clan your head and allows the mind to observe what you have just studied. Get back to your studies when your 15 minutes (fifteen minutes) are up. It is normal for the mind to wander occasionally. If you find yourself getting destructed and thinking about other things, pull your attention back into a study groove as soon as possible, that will give you another incentive to get your work done.
Set your space
    Students need a good work space, some place that is, conducive enough for focus. It helps to have a specific place that is set aside for study so that when you sit down, your mind knows you are there to work and can help you focus more quickly. Any place where you can get away from distractions is an ideal place to focus.
Health
    Health problems may impede your ability to participate in learning activities and may augment feeling, of loneliness, frustration and overall stresses.
    Safety: (Ryan & Twibell, 2000) stressed that certain ethnic and religious groups may feel particularly uneasy.
Separation from family and natural support system
    You naturally worry about the well-being of your family, relatives and friends, you may express home sickness in a variety of ways’ such as becoming sad and crying a lot, worry or denying the home sickness and keeping yourself just (Komyia Eells, 2001).
Social Isolation and difficulty establishing friendships with other students
    You many find yourself making friends mostly with other students from your state or with other states. One thing you may want to consider is the fact that tertiary institution students who make satisfactory contacts with local people seem to be more satisfied with their academic experience and overall adaptation (Sam, 2001).
Reluctance to participate in class discussions due to lack of confidence in English ability
    Small group seminars may be particularly anxiety provoking for you, you may think that you cannot contribute to the group and, as a result you may feel judged by you peers (Lewthwaite, 1997).
Psychological and physical discomfort
    You may feel sad, anxious, frustrated, lonely, misunderstood, stressed out, homesick. Also, you may have psychosomatic symptoms such as headaches, negatively toned emotions and symptoms may limit your activities and overall adaptation. The stress may reach crises levels. Especially in the first six months of your stay in the institutions (Komyia & Eells, 2001; Tryam & Twibell, 2000).
Summary of Review of the Related Literature
    Academic related anxiety is an anxiety generated by situations of apprehension during individual academic pursuit in which anxiety is provoked in the place of tertiary institutions. Literature, however, revealed that academic period is always anxious moments for students. Also, literature reviewed suggested that the anxious moments cannot be unconnected with the overwhelming importance educational attainment in the society and the pressure from parents, peers, teachers and significant others on students to succeed in whatever they do in school (Olayinka & Omogun, 2000).
    The literature has revealed that the concepts, nature and meaning of academic anxiety were discussed. It also covered areas like theories of anxiety and type of anxiety in which work by great psychologists and professional techniques such as Sigmund Freud, Wehrenberg Margaret and other educationist are highlighted.
    This chapter also reviewed relevant studies on the causes, effects and symptoms were examined. The major causes of anxiety are physical stress, emotional stress, social and economic stress, it also include review on the factors influencing students’ performance in the place of school.
    In summary, the researcher found out from reviewed literature that many factors make students highly anxious during academic pursuit and fight anxiety, students resort to fake result for admission, bribe or buy admission letters with the collaborators in teachers or lecturers, non-teaching staff and screening panel in other to be admitted into tertiary institutions and they buy questions papers/examination papers, linkages from teaching and non teaching staff.