This study was to determine the Psychometric analysis of personal anxiety and students’ academic achievement in Universities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Two research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The population of this study comprises 350 year one students from three universities in Cross River State. The sampling technique employed by the researcher in the selection of the sample was the simple random sampling technique. The sample size selected for this study was 225 year one students in selected schools which represents 5 percent of the accessible population comprising of 127 males and 98 females. The questionnaire was designed to measure the two sub-independent variables. The reliability of the instrument was 0.76 reliability coefficient. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while Simple linear regression analysis statistical tool was used to test the research hypotheses that were formulated to guild the study at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study show that there is a significant influence of freshmen’s adaptation to social activities in tertiary institution on their manifest anxiety and there is a significant freshmen’s adaptation to social relationship in tertiary institution predicts their manifest anxiety. Based on the findings, it was recommended that university management should formulate educational policies the will help in addressing problems of freshmen in schools such as problem of participation in social activities and participation in social relationship.