Abstract:
This research investigated the relationships among guidance and counselling awareness,
study habits and attitude to school and academic performance of senior secondary school
students in Sokoto metropolis. The total population for this study was Eleven thousand, eight
hundred and thirty. Six secondary schools were purposively selected and participated in this
study. Three hundred and eighty one students served as the sample for this research. Seven
null hypotheses were generated and tested. The instruments used in this study were five sets of
questionnaires. The Federal Ministry of Education questionnaire attitude to school scale,
Students' study habits inventory by Dikko (2008), Guidance and counselling rating scale by
Kolo (2004) and self designed academic achievement tests in Mathematics and English.
Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistical analysis tool was used to test
the five null hypotheses. The five null hypotheses were tested and rejected at an alpha level of
0.05. The major findings of this study are there are significant relationship between
Guidance and Counselling awareness and study habits, attitude to school and students
academic performance. It was concluded that Guidance and counselling awareness have
positive relationship with the variables studied. Recommendations were forwarded amongst
which is that since Guidance and counselling awareness have significant relationship with
students study habits, the Sokoto state government should employ^ qualified counsellors and
post one or two of such to each secondary schools in the state
