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The present study is concerned with assessing academic achievement and analyzing the main and interaction effect of some factors on the academic achievement of senior secondary school students. The present research has been designed with the survey under a descriptive model. Previous class academic records i.e., class 10 marks are used for measuring the academic achievement of senior secondary school students. A sample of 331 senior secondary school students from various schools of Aligarh and Agra districts of Uttar Pradesh were selected. The statistical techniques utilized mean, standard deviation and factorial ANOVA with three-way design i.e., 2×2×2. The findings of the present study revealed that – a) significant main interactional effect of type of school and locale on the academic achievement of senior secondary school students whereas b) religion has no significant main interactional effect on academic achievement of senior secondary school students. Similarly, c) significant two-way interaction of school type and religion on the academic achievement of senior secondary school students were found to be significant as F-ratio i.e., (1, 323) = 5.992, p-value = 0.015<0.05 is significant at 0.05 level of significance.