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Executive function is a psychological term used to analyze a person's cognitive function. This executive function can be identified from a person's behavior and the way they react to a situation. The application of executive function in the right way can improve a person's cognitive skills which can indirectly improve their academic performance. Students in Malaysia are more inclined towards the development of technology where they depend one hundred percent on technology. This makes their cognition untrained and weak. The main objective of this study is to determine the relationship between executive function and cognitive performance of students. This is to identify whether a student's academic achievement is affected by executive function. This study uses a quantitative research design. A survey study was conducted to identify student behavior based on their executive function and academic achievement. The results of the study found prove that, students who have behavior based on executive function, have a high level of academic achievement, this can lead to the conclusion that, the application of behavior based on executive function can provide higher cognitive skills that allow students to achieve high performance in their education. Improvements that can be made in this study by using the action research method where it is more effective and the results that will be obtained will be more accurate. In order to do this kind of research, a longer time allocation needs to be given.