College Stress Test

Hi. I took the College Student Stress test. It is really easy to complete. The test is a list of thirty-one questions that each have a corresponding number. The numbers range anywhere from one hundred to twenty. These numbers are stress points. As you read through the series of questions given you will circle the stress number of any of the questions that you find true of yourself. You will then add up all of the stress points that you circled to get your total. Questions such as deaths in the family or family problems rank the highest in points. The questions cover social, marital, family, monetary, and relational problems. For example, getting a divorce would really stress you out. Therefore it is sixty-five points. But, dropping a class in college doesn’t put stress on a person, and thus it is only twenty-three points. My personal score on this test was thirty-seven. The test only had one question that I thought I could and ‘yes’ to.  Before I took the test, I was thinking that I would be really racking up the points, but at the end I was surprised. This is because I rank way below 150 on the scale. Therefore I have less than a 1-in-3 chance of having a serious health change. People who score above three hundred are in serious danger of having health complications. Finally, people who score between 150 and 300 have a 50-50 chance of having a “health change within two years.”