This study was conducted to explore the
important factors that affect the students’ academic
performance. Research was conducted on private
colleges in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Four hypothesis
used in the study to check the effect of independent
variables on dependent variables. By using the
appropriate statistical package it is found that
communication, learning facilities, proper guidance and
family stress are the factors that affect the student
performance. Our three hypotheses are accepted and
one hypothesis is rejected. Communication, learning
facilities and proper guidance shows the positive impact
on the student performance and the family stress shows
the negative impact on the student performance but the
significant level is high. So, it is indicated that the
communication is more important factor that affect the
student performance and the learning facilities and
proper guidance are also affect the student
performance. Family stress also affects the student
performance and reduces the performance of the
student and affects negatively the student performance.