International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

The present study was carried out on a sample of 100 students (50 male and 50 female) drawn randomly belonging to rural and urban areas of 10 senior secondary schools of Kangra distt. in H.P. Achievement Motivation Scale by Dr. Shah Beena (2000), reliability of the test of boys’ 0.87 and test-retest reliability was 0.93 calculated and Socio-economic Status Scale by Dr. Meenakshi (2004), test-retest reliability has been found to be 0.82, Inertia it shows the discriminating power of the scale. After the analysis of data, it was found boys have more motivated for achievement and urban students have motivated for more achievement. We observed that there is no significant relationship between achievement motivation and socio-economic status of senior secondary school students. Significant variation in socio-economic status of the senior secondary school students (boys and girls). Need to proper guidance for both male and female in better achievement. Both variables are positively correlated with each other. It means both variables are independent.