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The purpose of this study is to examine prospective classroom teachers' success orientations and occupational anxiety levels in terms of gender and class level and to determine whether success orientation predicts occupational anxiety. The study group of the research consisted of 321 students (26.2% male, 73.8% female) who were studying in Classroom teaching programs of Education Faculties in Erciyes and Cumhuriyet Universities and were selected by simple random employee sampling method. In the research, while students' success orientations were measured by “2x2 Success Orientation scale", their occupational anxiety levels were measured by "Occupational Anxiety Scale" with 8 sub-dimensions. Personal information form was also used in the research. ttest, f-test, Pearson correlation technique and multiple linear regression analysis techniques were used while analyzing the data. The results of the research showed that there is a significant difference in some dimensions in terms of success orientation and occupational anxiety according to gender and class levels, and that success orientation is an important predictor of occupational anxiety. The results of this research were discussed within the framework of the relevant literature and suggestions for future researches were offered.