%0 Journal Article %T EFFECTIVENESS OF LIFE SKILL GRADING ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS %A PRASHANT THOTE %A L. MATHEW %A D.P. S RATHOURE %J Golden Research Thoughts %D 2013 %I Laxmi Book Publication %R 10.9780/22315063 %X The aim of the study was to analysis whether the teachers' assumptions that scores on life skill are boosting students performance in Summative assessment are justified. For this propose students performance in Summative assessment of three two sections of grade ten of private English medium school of Narsingarh .The correlation between the two components was obtained using Person's correlation coefficient ,performance on the two components within each sections was compaired Ħ°tĦħ test. Performances in life skill over the sections were analyzed by one way ANOVA. Comparison of the ratio of life skill to Summative assessment was done between the passed and failed students of all the two sections separately using chi square test. The result showed that no statically significant difference in the performance in both components of the sections A but in section B performance in Summative assessment were significantly higher than life skills performance. The conclusion drawn from the study proves that life skills are not boosting students performance in Summative assessment. %K Life skill %K Summative assessment %K academic performance %K Correlation %U http://www.aygrt.isrj.net/UploadedData/2263.pdf