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Abstract this study examined the cause and effects of poor academic pupils in akinyele local government area. Intervention strategies to improve students academic. Factors influencing the academic performance of the students. Emphasis was put on trying to establish the relationship between admission points, parents social economic status, former school background and academic performance of. Poor academic performance of secondary school students has been on the increase in both internal and external examination okoye 1982 defines poor academic performance of the individual or candidate in a learning situation as one in which a candidate fail to attain a set standard of performance in a give evaluation exercise such as test, examination or series of continuous assessment. A case study of islamia university of bahawalpur, pakistan muhammad daniyal1. Teacher based factors influencing academic performance among.
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