Assistant professor,

Academic achievement of the student decides future status of that student. That’s the reason why every parent and student is seriously concern about it. Childhood and adolescence phase of life is main period for the academic achievements. Overweight/obesity in children and adolescent is growing problem in developed as well as in developing countries. The present study was carried out to find the influence of weight on academic achievement of first year medical college student during their first academic year. The study included 92 healthy students who were appeared for all the examinations conducted in that academic year. These students were divided in three study groups on the basis of their Body mass index (BMI). Out of 92 students, 20 were overweight (BMI>23), 29 were underweight (BMI <18.5) and 43 were normal weight (BMI between 18.6 to 22.9). Their final university result was assessment of the student which considers all the examinations conducted in that year. So we took their final university result as their academic achievement indicator and compared it between three study groups. Statistical analysis was done by one-way ANOVA test. Findings of the study suggest that academic achievement of overweight student is less than normal weight and significantly less than underweight students