Relationship between Interest of Subject and the Level of Achievement of Secondary School Students

It is generally agreed upon by most of the schools of thoughts that motivation and interest of a learner brings an effective learning. In case of choice of hard and soft subjects the situation maybe and it may not be same. This study touches this aspect too. Students’ interest in any subject may be crucial for scoring. In order to check the above statement a study was designed to check the interest of students of secondary level in a subject and their score in the corresponding subject. The aptitude of students for the subject of mathematics was checked with the help of achievement test. The test was served the students during routine classroom environment so that the environment required for a test/examination may through stress on the minds of the students. The study shows that throughout the series of tests the students who were keen interested in mathematics provided better results.