The study was to x-ray the effect of study habits counseling on academic achievement among probating, National certificate of education (NCE) two students of the College of Education technical Enugu. The study comprises 300 probating students and 255 were randomly selected and even number technique were used in the group process. The study had two objectives to determine the effect of study habit ocunselling towards improving academic performance of probating NCE students of college of education. To find out if gender is a factor to poor academic performance. Two hypotheses were generated and test using student[1]test and chi-square. There is no significant relationship between study habit and academic performance of probating students.There is no significant difference in student’s performance as a result of gender. The result from the analysis of the data revealed that there is no significant relationship between students study habit and their academic performance. It also revealed that gender significantly affect academic performance. Suggestion and conclusions were also drawn from the study among which is that counsellors should encourage the repeats to try hard instead of ridiculing them.
