A study on the factors that contribute to students' academic performance among degree students in UiTM Cawangan Kedah / Nabihah Shuaid and Nur Syahirah Mohd Sabri

Nowadays, academic performance plays a vital roles for each of the students around the world. Students that able to achieve a good performance in academic, tends to have a greater future as it has significantly tested in few research. As academic performance plays vital roles, students eager to achieve good grades which the grades are being measured by CGPA (Cumulative Grade Points Average). Therefore, students tend to perform well in achieving good grades as they know most of the job required good academic background. Apart from that, the students that have the ability to excel in their academic has wider knowledge as they strive more in the academic compared to others. There are various internal and external factors that positively related with student's academic performance such as motivation, roles of educators, peer influence, perception on examination, extra-curricular activities, parenting styles and class attendance. Hence, this study focuses on the independent variables that are positively related with the students which are motivation, roles of educators and peer influence.