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ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to compare anxiety and achievement motivation among rural, semi urban and urban school boys. To facilitate the study twenty boys from rural area, twenty boys from semi urban area and twenty boys from urban area of Andhra Pradesh were randomly selected in the age group of 15 and 17 years. The selected boys were administered with anxiety and achievement questionnaire and the sores were tabulated for the comparison to find out whether any differences existed on selected psychological variables through statistical analysis. Achievement motivation scale developed by Kamlesh (1990) was used to measure achievement motivation and anxiety was measured through standard questionnaire. This questionnaire was developed by Spielberger.(1976). The results showed significant difference among the three groups of boys. The paired mean comparisons proved that urban boys have significantly greater achievement motivation than rural boys and urban boys were significantly greater anxiety than semi urban boys. Other comparisons did not proved to be any significant differences. It was concluded that urban boys were more achievement motivation than rural boys and the urban boys were more anxious than semi urban boys. Key words :- anxiety ,motivation , urban and urban school boys.