Habib S.K., J. Harmoniz. Res. Appl. Sci. 2018, 6(1), 09-16 www.johronline.com 9 | Page For Correspondence: alameen.ratan@gmail.com. Received on: December 2018 Accepted after revision: January 2018 Downloaded from: www.johronline.com Introduction: Extracurricular activities play an important role in today’s education. It relates students’ learning outcome from extracurricular activities with their academic performance. It integrates their cognitive, psychomotor, social, moral and other domains as a whole in a unity. And it also reflects on their academic achievements. They can relate their bookish knowledge with real life activities, and it will make their content more easy and transparent to them. There are many extracurricular activities; such of them are athletics, publications, student Journal Of Harmonized Research in Applied Sciences 6(1), 2018, 09-16 A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SK Habib Dasbaga Basu Kacharibati Primary School, Uluberia East, Howrah, India Original Research Article Journal Of Harmonized Research (JOHR) ISSN 2321 – 7456 Abstract: The present study reveals the fact that involvement in the extracurricular activities produces its effect on academic performance of the students. Most of the studies have been carried out and they have revealed the fact that particular extracurricular activities certainly effects on the academic achievement of the students. The purpose of this study is to establish that extra-curricular activities in which school students participate have a positive effect on their academic achievements. The study was conducted by using the questionnaire filling technique which was distributed among 171 students of the class Vlll, lX & X of Al-Ameen Mission School, Khalisani, Uluberia, Howrah, West Bengal. The study gave the fact that according to the students involved in any kind of sports, participating in dramatic and other literary activities positively affects their academic performance, while watching the television has also some positive impact on academic performance. So, it can be deduced from the study that extra- curricular activities affect academic achievements of the students and this impact also depends upon those activities in which the students are keenly involved. Keywords: Extracurricular Activity, Academic Achievement,Senior Secondary,High Grade Point Average