Abstract: Achievement Motivation plays a significant role in students' life, this the basic attainment of excellence. The present study was designed to investigate the impact of Achievement Motivation on Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Students of Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Odisha. The framed objective of the study was to describe the achievement motivation score of Undergraduate students, investigating the impact of achievement motivation on academic achievement of undergraduate students and finding out the significance of difference between achievement motivation of undergraduate boys and girls' students. In the present study, the investigator adopted the ex-post facto research design, where 126 undergraduate students including 63boys and 63girls from all the stream.......
Keywords: Achievement Motivation, Academic Achievement, Stratified Random Sampling
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