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Anxiety is not only a most preferred theme and topic for many poets and novelists, but it has become a most alarming and noteworthy human being related phenomenon which is influencing behaviour and behavioural outcomes. In this modern age also, individuals cannot prevent or escape themselves from the anxiety problems throughout their lives, especially during their crucial stages and years of academics and at the beginning of their career. Academic achievements are important instruments of personal progress, which helps to achieve the goals and make all round development of a child. It also helps in the fulfilment of parent’s aspirations that their children can also climb the ladders of success. In achievement of the goals, in the general education system lots of pressures are imposed on the students and also teachers. The achievements of students in our country are measured in terms of their performance in examinations. On the basis of achievements of performances in school examinations, students are labelled as intelligent, mediocre, fast learners/ slow learners and whether they are ready for the next class or not. The objectives of the study were to study academic anxiety, academic achievement relation between them of teenagers. Anxiety and academic achievement are inversely related. Family type and family size have significant positive correlation with anxiety. Child sex does not have any effect on anxiety and academic achievement. Class of child and also age inversely related to anxiety while class of child and age exhibited significant positive correlation with academic achievement. The study concluded that Socioeconomic status has no effect on anxiety and academic achievement the variables anxiety and academic achievement are independent on socioeconomic status student anxiety and academic achievement are inversely related indicating higher the anxiety lower the academic achievement.

Anxiety, Academic achievement.