Preparing for the higher education admission test: preparation practices and test takers’ achievement goal orientations

Of the many possible institutional and individual factors bearing on test preparation, one is how individuals go about choosing their achievement goals. Yet, the literature on the relationship between the two phenomena remains slim. The objectives of this study are twofold. First, it explores the range of test preparation practices exercised by test takers in preparing for the English module of the Higher Education Admission Test in Iran....