RESUMEN
To assess and compare the level of test anxiety and examination stress among males and females university students. Cross sectional study. The study was conducted in the Department of Sociology and Business Administration, University of The Punjab, New campus, Lahore from June to August 2005. 100 students of sociology and business administration [50 male, 50 female] were approached 3 to 7 days before their final exams through purposive convenient sampling technique. Female students experience significantly higher level of test anxiety, t [98] = 3.83, p < 0.05, Worry, t [98] = 2.458, p < 0.05, Emotionality, t [98] = 4.47, p < 0.05 and Examination stress, t [98] = 2.01, p < 0.05 as compared to male students. In addition, female students reported a significantly higher level of need for family support as compared to male students, t [98] = -3.623, p < 0.05. Female Masters' students are needed to pay more attention on controlling their level of test anxiety, worry, emotionality and examination stress than male students, which could be done through training them. Bearing in mind the gender differences in test anxiety and examination stress different kinds of counseling strategies must be used for males and females