DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2015.v03i03.007

Pages: 639-641

This study examined the effect of gender and socio-economic status on academic achievement of higher secondary students of Chandigarh city. The sample consists of 100 males and 100 females in the age range of 16-18 from Govt. Model Senior Secondary School Sec -47. Socio- Economic Status scale developed by R.L. Bharadwaj (2005) was used for data collection, while the total marks obtained by the student in the previous class i.e. class Xth was used as an achievement criteria. Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test were used for comparison. This study shows that gender does not have any effect on the academic achievement of students at higher secondary stage but it was effected by the socio-economic status. The students who belonged to high socio-economic status showed better academic achievement than the students of low socio-economic status.