Gender has also been found to have an effect on academic performance. However, most surprising is the fact that the female gender performed better than the male gender in academic performance. Although the issue of findings in respect to gender and performance has been controversial, generally, with some maintaining that males are better, and others insisting that females were better. This study is not excluded from this con-troversy. Nevertheless, this finding is supported by the findings of Powell (1999) who found out that girls’ performance are better than boys in the primary grades in all subjects. Apart from the main findings, the interactions of anxiety, self concept and gender which were significant is a pointer to the fact that academic performance is not just a gender issue alone, but it is brought about by an array of constructs acting in combination. In conclusion therefore, academic performance, just like any other observed behaviour in psychology cannot be an antecedent of one factor, but largely determined by a wide range of factor, overt and convert, operating within and outside the learning environment.