General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations represent a significant source of worry and anxiety for students in their final two years of compulsory education, referred to as Key Stage 4 in the UK (Denscombe, 2000; Putwain, 2007). A small inverse relationship has been reported between the appraisal of examinations as threatening, as measured through the test anxiety construct, and GCSE achievement (Putwain, 2008). Test anxiety is hypothesised to have an interfering effect on achievement through occupying cognitive resources, however it may not be the perception of examinations as threatening that is responsible for interference effects, per se, but how the student responds to that threat (Putwain, in press).