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The present study was conducted to explore difference in academic stress and academic performance among the higher secondary students with respect to their gender and to estimate the relation between academic stress and academic performance of the students of class XI of Bengali medium higher secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Council of Higer Secondary Education in Malda District, West Bengal. The researchers adopted the Academic Stress Scale consisted of forty items developed by Kim (1970) and adopted by Rajendran and Kaliappan (1990) and Rao (2012) and the scores obtained by the students in Madhyamik Examination were taken for the study. The researchers applied the Pearson Product Moment Method to find out the said relation and t-tests to find out the difference among the sub-samples. The present study found that there is a significant difference in academic stress and also revealed that there is a significant difference in academic performance due to the gender of the students of class XI. The present study explored negative correlation between the academic stress and academic performance of the students.