Study Habit and Academic Performance: A Comparative Study between High and Low Academic Achieving College Students of Asansol Town

The present study aims to explore the impact of academic performance on study habit among high and low academic achieving college students of Asansol town. Study habit inventory developed by Mukhopadhyay and Sansanwal (1971) was used to for collection of data. The samples for the present research were drawn from 40 undergraduate and post graduate students of Asansol town. The sample was selected by stratified random sampling technique. Mean, SD and t-ratio were applied for data analysis. The result revealed that there is significant impact of gender and academic achievement on study habit. It was also found that girls showed higher level of study habit in comparison of boys, which was 50%. Higher achiever students showed higher level of study habit in comparison of lower achievers. The obtained t-ratio for gender and academic achievement was found 3.99 and 5.52 respectively, both of which were significant on 0.01 level.