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Test anxiety is related to impaired performance in different cognitive tasks. Relation between test anxiety and performance has been found mainly in mathematical, visual and working memory tasks but also in overall performance in WAIS-III -version. This Master's thesis examines the relation between test anxiety and cognitive task performance encompassing in WAIS-IV -test. Sample benefits WAIS-IV's Finnish standardization sample. The test anxiety estimation was taken in 599 cases by the researcher and in 611 cases by self evaluation. 262 (44 %) of those evaluated by the researcher experienced little, medium or a lot of anxiety. 299 (49 %) of the self evaluation examinees experienced little, medium or a lot of anxiety. Test anxiety was noticed to be related to cognitive performance in subtests, indices and overall performance. Test anxiety was evaluated by the researcher and was noticed to be related to subtests that measure working memory, perceptual reasoning and processing speed negatively. Test anxiety evaluated by the researcher was related to all indices where as self reported test anxiety was related to only working memory index and perceptual reasoning index. As evaluated by the researcher more differences were found both in subtests and in the indices than the results of self reported test anxiety. Regardless of the evaluation (by the researcher or self reported) test anxiety was related to both Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) and General Ability Index (GAI). Based on this Master's thesis it can be said that test anxiety has a comprehensively negative relation to cognitive test performance. Test anxiety weakens individual's test performance and abilities to adduce thoroughly which sets a risk to misinterpretation and underestimation of one's abilities in evaluating cognitive capacity in clinical work. Therefore attention should be paid to test anxiety in test situations.