Life skills are skills that enable individuals to deal effectively with the challenges of everyday life. Realising the importance of life skills education, the investigator has made an attempt to study the relationship between five important life skills and the academic achievement in Higher Secondary students in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The findings of the study revealed a positive correlation between the skills. The English medium students seemed to have better Critical Thinking skills than their Tamil counterparts. Private management school students have better Problem Solving skill scores than the government school students. The percentage analysis revealed that in co-education schools, the life skills scores were high whereas the achievement scores were medium.