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i) There is need for further research in this area since contradicting and mixed findings have been reported, particularly on the role of Locus of control to exam anxiety and academic performance in students,

ii) In addition, more local studies should be conducted on other categories of samples such as primary school pupils, university students as well as on special needs populations for rich research literature on the variables of this study to guide policy formulations in education,

iii) There may be some level of collinearity between the independent variables in this study in predicting variability in academic performance, however this is beyond the scope of the present study; therefore, future studies can

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explore these details. Collinearity (or multicollinearity) is a situation whereby the correlations among the independent variables (IVs) are strong, meaning that within the set of IVs, some of the IVs are (nearly) totally predicted by the other IVs, in this case these are correlations among academic procrastination, Locus of control and academic resilience. iv) Other variables associated with exam anxiety should also be investigated

such as testwiseness, subject differences, teaching pedagogy, intelligence, self-esteem and self-concept,

v) More studies adopting typical experimental design could also be conducted on exam anxiety treatment programs such as stress inoculation training techniques and procedures using experimental and control groups to totally minimize the effects of extraneous variables, hence establish a clear-cut relationship between exam anxiety and academic performance.

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