Abstract
The study examined the influence of Guidance and Counselling on Academic Performance of Senior Secondary School Students n Rivers State. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researcher developed three (3) specific objectives, three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The research design used for the study was a descriptive research design. The population of the study was Seventeen Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Two (17,972) SS II students. There are 9,817 female and 8,155 male SS II students. The total sample size for this study was 400 SS II students. That is 220 female and 180 male SS II students. The researcher used simple random sampling technique. The instrument used for the data collection was self structured questionnaire titled: Influence of Guidance and Counseling on Academic Performance of Students Questionnaire. The data gathered were analyzed using mean score and standard deviation for the research questions, while the null hypotheses were tested using z-test statistical tool at 0.05 level of significant. Based on the analysis of the data, the findings of the study reveals that information services, referrals services and placement services have positive and significant influence on students’ academic performance in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommends that: government through the school management should implement all the services required for a guidance and counselling programme and government, through school management and counselor should always organize orientation programme for students to orient them on the needs of information services to students’ career choice.