摘要：Study skills are fundamental to academic competence. Effective study skills are associated with positive outcomes across multiple academic content areas. As quality education depends on the effectiveness of teaching, teaching process, therefore study habit is an important factor that is needed to upgrade the academic performance of students. Learners' habits serve as the vehicle of learning. A sample of 300 senior secondary students from the four schools of Sonipat is taken and Study Habit Inventory (SHI) by M.N Palsane and S. Sharma was used for data collection. Academic scores of the examination of Xth standard were taken representing academic achievement of these students. A significant and positive relationship was found between study habits and academic achievement of senior secondary students. The findings also depict that the students having good study habits have high achievement and vice versa. On the basis of the results it can be said that if good study habits are inculcated, nurtured and prompted at the young and impressionable age of student, it will go a long way solving a number of hurdles on the way to the development of good and cultured citizens. If the habits like reading, writing and the study skills begin even from elementary stage, the students automatically possess good academic success in high school and college level. Such informations can be helpful for teachers, parents, counsellors, administrators, policy makers and others so that they may think to provide such type of environment in the educational institutions which will help in the development of good study habits among the learners.
关键词：Study Habits; Academic Achievement; and Senior Secondary Students
