In an earlier study conducted by Kumari (2014), it is important to consider why personality

should be expected to be correlated with academic performance when most measures of

personality, including the Five Factor Model, were not designed to predict academic
performance. Therefore, the idea that intelligence, socioeconomic status and personality each
affect socially-valued behaviors is consistent with the proposal that performance in both work
and academic settings is determined by factors relating to capacity to perform, opportunity to
perform and willingness to perform.

Indeed, complexities and challenging demands of personality sometimes affect the way students
appreciate the value of education through maintaining their academic performance that measures
their ability to demonstrate knowledge, values and skills (Laguador & Pesigan, 2013). If looking
in a narrow perspective, personality has a big impact in student’s academic performance. It
reflects in their work, performance, and outcome. Proper knowledge and understanding will
greatly help them in balancing their personality and academic performance.

Meanwhile, Saxena and Mishra (2015) argued that confidence, communication etc. have been
umpteen numbers of times seen as traits leading to high success of the individuals possessing the
same and on the contrary those who had visible absence of these traits were more likely to face
failure. This presented that performance in academics is also highly valued in society. Society
treats such individual on the pedestal and they get all the respect and adulation from family,
friends and peers. Though things are changing and on account of globalization, some other
careers such as music, sports etc. are also emerging but academics and personality continues to
be a big hit among the students.