Achievement Motivation: A Comparative Study of Private and Government School Students

The present research study aim is to know the achievement motivation of school with relation to their Gender in Jalgaon city. The sample consisted of 120 Secondary school going students in Jalgaon city. Out of which 60 were private school student and 60 were Government school students. For the investigation Achievement Motivation scale of V.P. Bhargava (1994) was used. The obtained data was analyzed through ’t’ test to know the significant difference between the boys and girls in the private school student and a significant difference in Achievement Motivation Government school students. Result show that the student of private school have significantly higher in Achievement Motivation in comparison to Government school students.