Through extensive search of the literature and discussion
with experts on student performance, a number of factors that are considered to have influence on the
performance of a student are identified. These influencing factors are categorized as input variables. For this
work, recent real world data is collected from high school. This data is then filtered out using manual
techniques. Then data is transformed into a standard format required by the WEKA tool. After that, features
and parameters selection is identified.