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Modern age is highly competitive in all spheres of life. Among all, academic sphere seems to be the prerequisite for successful meeting the challenges, hence, achievement in academics has always been considered as the most important and significant predictor for success in life.
In view to the above fact, psychologist, educationist, and other social scientist have always been conceived to the significant phenomenon of academic achievement because success in academics either at school or college/university level is considered instrumental for career building and career progression, hence, the present work had been undertaken to study academic achievement as a function of self concept, school and home environment. It is necessary to mention at this juncture that for all sought of success, the key factors like self concept, school and home environment are important, hence, the same is considered for academic achievement too. The detailed description of the variables taken for the present empirical research endeavour are being given in the writings to follow. Self is the conscious reflection of one's own being or identify. We can think of self in many different ways. The two most widely used terms of this self are self-concept and self-esteem. Self-concept is the cognitive or thinking aspect of self. On the other hand, self-esteem is the affective or emotional aspect of self. Self-concept is considered as key to personality. It generally refers to the totality of a complex, organized, and dynamic system of learned beliefs, attitudes and opinions that each person holds to be true about his or her personal existence" (Purkey, 1988). Self concept is sometimes referred on the basis of all motivated behaviour. This concept of self gives rise to possible selves, and this possible self create the motivation for behaviour. It suggests the idea that our view and our relationship to that view provide the boundaries and circumstances within which the children and the youth of today are developing their vision about possibilities. We can develop and maintain our self-concept. By the process of taking action and then reflecting on what. We have done and what others tell us about we have done. We reflect on what we have done and can do in comparison to our expectations and the expectations of others and to the characteristics and accomplishments of others (Brigham, 1986; James, 1890). Their studies show that self concept is not mute, but it is developed and nourished by the self through interaction with the environment.

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