Abstract

Performance of learners is associated with so many other factors as many studies conducted on the analysis of the performance of learners but there are a few studies related to the learners residing at hostels and home at school level which found divided conclusions but at university level no such study was conducted so far. This study explored academic performance of boarding and non-boarding students at university level in A.J&K., the objectives were identifying different academic indicators that are affected by boarding and non-boarding status among the universities, the study was delimited to two universities and population was all the students enrolled in the undergraduate level, a convenient sampling technique was used to select 500 students from both universities. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data, the performance of the boarding is better as compared to non-boarding in terms of their CGPA because the CGPA of boarding is higher than the no-boarding, the reading, writing and speaking habits of boarding students are better than the non-boarding students. Additionally it was found that the listening and learning skills, memory and study skills of boarding students and social performance of boarding students are better than the non-boarding students.