Factors Influencing Undergraduate Students’ Academic Performance in Examination

Abstract

Academic Performance of the students is the outcome of education and it is an area of concern for all academic programs in all levels of education institutions all over the world. Universities and higher education institutions are more subjected to this in striving to be centers of excellence in knowledge and skills generation among students. In view of this, conditions and factors affecting undergraduate students’ academic performance become essential.

Literature has documented several factors that influence academic performance of university students that are inside and outside the University. The factors may be termed as demographic, and learning environment.

Both primary and secondary data were used from 99 final yearstudents from Bachelor of Business Administration programme of the Faculty of Commerce and Management, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. The

academic performance was gauged using General Performance Aggregate (GPA) based on the academic year examination results, SPSS version 22 was applied for data analysis.