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Mallika Gayary and Sima Kalita
Gauhati University.
Academic achievement serves as the foundational stage for an individual’s future career
and education. Personality appears to significantly influence academic achievement.
The Big Five personality traits provide a well-established framework for comprehending
primary dimensions of human personality. This study seeks to investigate the connection
between the Big Five Personality Traits (BFPTs) and the academic achievement of
postgraduate students. The research is a descriptive survey involving 400 postgraduate
students from Gauhati University in Assam, with an equal distribution of 200 male and
200 female participants. The sample also includes an equal number of students from
Arts and Science stream, with 200 students from the Arts stream and 200 from the
Science stream. The tools used in this study were the Big Five Personality Inventory
(2020) by Prof. K.S. Misra and the end-semester results of the respective participants.
The findings indicate that gender does not influence BFPTs, but science stream students
are more extraverted than arts stream students. Additionally, traits such as neuroticism
and agreeableness have a significant impact on students’ academic achievement.