Education remains the most outstanding development priority areas in the world today. The core purpose of education, unquestionably, is formation of humane. Other things being equal, an educated person who is well or relevantly positioned in the socio-economic culture and political setting is expected to be a valuable asset to the society than another individual who is illiterate and perhaps ignorant. This simple fact explains why researchers and scholars all over the world, continue to do research into ways of improving human knowledge and development. Educational research is that activity which is directed towards development of a science of behaviour in educational situations.

In the present day of industrialization, competition, stress and tension among young make them face lot of difficulties. These difficulties give rise to many psychosomatic problems such as anxiety, tensions and frustrations and emotional upsets in day-to-day life. This study has sought to investigate the influence of health status of the students on academic achievement in science among upper primary, secondary and higher secondary students. Since a very limited number of studies have addressed health status of students in India, and because of the seriousness of its adverse consequences, it was considered important to explore this issue further. There is a need to attempt to understand this immense problem from all angles of the planners, the educator and the students. The most important and least known is the child's angle of this context. It was felt that this study should be attempted to reveal the problems faced by this large important group of student.