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The present study was undertaken to study the Academic resilience and Problem solving ability among higher secondary students. A total sample of 300 higher secondary school students were selected through stratified random sampling technique based on Gender, Medium of instruction, and Stream of study from 10 higher secondary schools for the present study. For the collection of data the investigator used Academic Resilience Scale. ARS-30 was constructed and validated by Cassidy (2016) and Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) was constructed and validated by Ntina Kourmousil (2016). The results of the study showed that there exists positive high correlation between academic resilience and problem solving ability among higher secondary school students and significant difference was found in academic resilience and problem solving ability among higher secondary school students with respect to gender. Further, the significant difference was not found between Tamil medium and English medium students, Arts and Science students in their academic resilience and problem solving ability.