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Self-concept is all the information and beliefs individuals have about their own characteristics and themselves. Self-concept refers to domain-specific evaluations of the self. Children can make self-evaluations in many domains of their life. These include academics, athletics, physical appearance, social interactions, moral, temperamental, intellectual and so on. Students begin to construct a self-concept, the set of attributes abilities, attitudes and values that an individual believes defines who he or she is. The study aims at finding the relationship between Self-concept and Academic achievement. The investigator has adopted descriptive research design for the present study. In order to study the impact of self concept on academic achievement the statistical techniques used in the present study were Mean, Standard Deviation. 't' test and Co-efficient of Correlation. The results of the study indicate that individuals with a high self-concept have higher academic achievement and with a low self-concept tend to have lower academic performance . High self-concept students will perform better which will in turn increase their general academic achievement significantly.