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The present study aimed to investigate whether there was any significant relationship between gender-role identity & achievement motivation of undergraduate first-year college students. In this survey study, the investigator used multistage stratified random sampling technique for selecting the sample from the population. The stratifications were done in various stages on the basis of locality & gender of students. The sample consisted of 600 (300 male & 300 female) undergraduate first-year students from several colleges affiliated under Calcutta University in Kolkata District, West Bengal, India. The tools used for the present study were Indian Gender Role Identity Scale-B (IGRIS-B) developed by Jayanti Basu, Subrata Dasgupta, Urmi Chakraborty & Sipra Basu, (2012) and Achievement Motivation (n-Ach) scale constructed by Dr. Pratibha Deo (Pune) and Dr. Asha Mohan (Chandigarh) in 1985. The statistical techniques used for analyzing the data for the present study were Mean, S.D., Z-scores to find out whether there existed any significant mean-difference between two sexes across the two variables & Karl Pearson's product moment co-efficient of correlation to assess the nature of relationship between these two variables under study. The findings revealed that, there existed a significant biological sex difference in terms of the two variables & there was a significant relationship between gender-role identities of undergraduate first-year students in relation to their achievement motivation.