Abstract
The appraisal of academic performance has been a regular process in the educational field for a long time. The aim of education is to bring the all-round development of an individual by imparting knowledge, skill and imbibing values in them. But with the passage of time, the aim of formal education is being changed from all-round development of an individual to solely the academic success of the students which narrows down the broader meaning and aim of education. The contemporary study was carried out to examine the association between the academic achievement of secondary students with their study habits and socio- economic status. The researchers took 250 students, selected from different secondary schools of Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh as the sample of the study by using simple random sampling technique. Study Habits Scale (2015) developed by Rani and Jaidka and Socio-economic Status Scale developed and standardized by Kalia and Sahu (2012), as instruments were administered to collect the data. The researchers found that academic achievement, study habits and socio-economic status were correlated with each other. The study revealed that no critical statistical difference exists in scholastic achievement, study habits and socio-economic status among the secondary students on the grounds of gender and locality but the significant difference exists among the secondary students in academic achievement, study habits and socio-economic status on the grounds of their school types which means the significant difference etween govt. and private schools. The study also revealed that there was significant main and interaction effect of study habits and socio- economic status on academic achievement. It further showed that study habits and socio-economic status were significant predictors of academic achievement of the secondary students.
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