Estimating the Causes of Poor Academic Performance of Students: A Case Study

Poor academic performance of students is not the only concern for parents and teachers, but also a concern for the country as a whole. This paper makes an attempt to identify the cause(s) of poor academic achievement. This paper presents a method of identifying the most influencing factor on academic performance. The proposed method capable of using qualitative ratings as input for the factors considered and find the correlation of each factor with academic performance, and finally rank the influences of the factors on performance to sort out the most influencing one. The study was carried out on the academic performance of 189 students of B.Tech for five academic semesters. The results indicate the degree influences of various factors on performance, with the most influencing one being the academic ability of students.