Abstract

• This study was to explore the under-achievers of middle school students and inquiry into the teachers’ guidance given to them by counselling approach. Counselling is the technique of guidance to assist the students understand themselves, their abilities and characteristics, their environment and their opportunities for attaining an outstanding and successful life. Most of the middle school students cannot understand the difficulties and problems they encounter in their lives. They always solve the problems irrationally. Adolescent protest is accompanied by a rise in emotional turmoil. In this connection, academic achievement of adolescents is very low and they did not inspire in education. And so, drop-out rate in middle school students is very high. Teachers’ guidance should conform to all students who are different in physical, intellectual, emotional and social aspects. Especially, teachers must have empathetic understanding on the under-achievers and must force them to become the qualified students by counselling techniques. This study highlighted the guidance culture of the schools under study and causes of being underachievers from the selected schools. And, this study presents the psychological moods of under achievers and counselling effect on education.