Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Adolescent Students with reference to Siwan district, Bihar, India

This study was undertaken to study the academic achievement and study habits of male and female college students of district Siwan (Bihar). The total sample comprises school students with age range l3 to 16 years from Siwan district, Bihar. The whole sample consists of total 600 school going adolescents with equal number of boys (n-300) and girls (n300). Both subgroups were made with equal number of adolescents belonging to urban & rural community. To select the sample randomized sampling technique was used in the present study. The efforts were made to select the sample as representative as possible in terms of socio-economic status and family type. Test of Study Habits and Attitudes developed by C. P. Mathur will be applied to measure study habits. Academic Achievement: In absence of availability of any standardized academic performance test, percentage of the marks obtained at the last year grade examination held on prescribed syllabus was considered as academic performance scores as these scores were found to be representative of the student’s academic achievement. The average of these percentages for each sample subject was used as measure of the academic achievement were administered for the collection of data. The result of the study highlights that the female college students have high academic achievement as compared to male college students. On the other hand, it has been found that study habits of college female students are slightly higher than the male. The two groups under study do not show any significant difference in their study habits.