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Anxiety has become a serious concern in second language learning over the past years and is an issue that triggers different views. Many researches were guided previously on different kinds of anxiety on students during examination and inside the classrooms. While no research is done on this issue in Kurdistan part of Iraq. For this reason, this study aims to examine factors that cause anxiety on students in a negative way. Semi-structured way of data collection used in this study based on Grounded Theory. Ten Participants were involved in this research. They were students of Fakhir Mergasouri international school located in Erbil of Iraq. Data were analyzed to discover the effect of anxiety on the overall performance of the student, after being collected in semi-structured process and through Grounded Theory. The finding of the study is that anxiety has a negative impact on students during examination period inside exam halls. The significance of the study is to help the student relieve and decrease the amount of anxiety.