251 | Page www.jgcsunizik.org Nwankwo & Egbunike Journal of Guidance and Counselling Studies, 2021, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 251-258 Introduction Students have the tendency to put off tasks that they must complete in order to enhance their lives and achieve success. Most of the time, they do not effectively manage their time and instead misuse it by doing things that are unrelated to achieving academic and life goals and objectives; they prefer to waste time on simple and pleasurable activities over more important tasks and activities that will bring success and meaning to their lives. Most of the time, this behavior leads to them failing to meet critical goals and Journal of Guidance and Counselling Studies Effect of Time Management Training on Academic Task Procrastination of Secondary School Students in Onitsha Local Government Area of Anambra State Prof. Christopher Amobi Nwankwo 1 & Egbunike, Nkechi Scholastica 2 1&2Department of Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5136739 Abstract Procrastination is a behavioural condition that causes major scholastic difficulties for all people, particularly students and teachers in a school setting. This study investigated the effect of time management training on academic task procrastination of secondary school students in Onitsha North local government area of Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Quasi experimental non-randomized pre-test and post-test, control group design was used for the study. Sample size of 580, SS 11 and J.SS 11, male and female secondary school students were purposively drawn from seven co- educational secondary schools with population size of 3550. The instrument for data collection was TuckmanPprocrastination Scale (TPS). Mean was used to answer the research Questions while Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used in testing the null hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed among others that time management training was effective in reducing academic task procrastination among secondary school students. The study further showed that the effect of time management training on academic task procrastination was significant. Based on the findings, of the study, the following recommendations were made, among others: that guidance counsellor should start early to adopt the use of time management training in the reduction of academic task procrastination of secondary school students. Practicing counsellors should also make use of the time management training in counselling students towards reducing their academic task procrastination. Key words: Time management, Training, Academic task, Procrastination, Students