Number right and elimination scores were analyzed on a 48-item college level mathematics test that was assembled from pretest data in three forms by varying the item orderings: easy-hard, uniform, or random. Half of the forms contained information explaining the item arrangement and suggesting strategies for taking the test. Several anxiety measures (state, trait, facilitating, and debilitating) were administered, along with the experimental forms of the mathematics test, to 97 undergraduates. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed no significant effects of the independent variables (order, knowledge, and anxiety condition) on either cognitive dependent measure (number right or elimination scores). Multivariate analysis of covariance, using measures of anxiety as multiple covariates, also failed to show any significant influence on the cognitive dependent measures or a set of perceptional dependent measures. Results tentatively suggest that neither test scores nor attitudes were influenced by item order, knowledge of item arrangement, or anxiety level. (Author/GDC)