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This study is intended to explore the relationship of Emotional Intelligence (EI) with Academic Achievement (AA) of Adolescent Students. Also efforts have been made to find whether Emotional Intelligence can predict the Academic Achievement. To satisfy these questions, investigator decided to undergo this study. For this study, a sample of 232 adolescent students studying in Private and Government Elementary Schools of Bhopal City. The sample was drawn through purposive sampling technique. Mangal�s Emotional Intelligence Inventory was used for collecting the data of EI; and for AA students marks of previous examination was taken .The obtained data was analyzed mainly through correlation, regression, and three way ANOVA. Major finding of the study was EI and AA was found to be significantly positively related. Further, EI emerged as the strongest predictor of AA contributing 36.2% variance. And significant differences were found in three levels of EI. The groups of High EI and Low EI were found to be Higher and Lower mean scores in AA respectively. This study has the major implications for teachers as well as students.