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Abstract
Education is a mean to improve all the qualities of human being. It enable the individual to rise the quality of physical stamina, intellectual power, social upright, emotional balance, spiritual consciousness, morally high and culturally empowered. Meta-cognitive skills actuate and control other cognitive strategies in learning and thinking process, and make plans and decisions of other cognitive strategies to be used in future and achievement motivation provides a means of powerful and higher aim in the life of the students. Meta-cognition also thinks about one's own thinking process such as study skills, memory capabilities, and the ability to monitor learning. This concept needs to be explicitly taught along with content instruction. Meta-cognitive knowledge is about one‘s own cognitive processes and understanding of how to regulate those processes to maximize learning. Meta-cognition is the process of thinking about thinking. It is the process of developing self-awareness and the ability to self-assess. It is contemplation about one’s education and learning -- past, present, and future. On exploring the present study, effect of meta-cognitive skills on academic achievement among secondary school students, it was found that the levels of high and low meta-cognitive skills effected the academic achievement of male and female secondary school students. Male and female students having high and meta-cognitive skills do not differs significantly on academic achievement but the students having high and low meta-cognitive skills differ significantly on academic achievement .