Volume : 3, Issue : 12, DEC 2017

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND PERSONALITY

RANJIT KAUR MALHOTRA, PROF DR.DALJEET KAUR

Abstract

The whole education system is focusing its attention on measures to improve Academic Achievement of learners and techniques of emulating Personality Traits of students to shape their Personality. The present study explains the association between personality and academic achievement on the basis of previous studies done by various researchers. It showed that personality is correlated with academic achievement and personality scores also indicated academic achievement which we find in scores.

Keywords

Personality And Academic Achievement.

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