Essence of Academic Performance: Counselling for Effective Mentoring

Excellent performance at any stage in life is paramount to great achievement and good success at all
levels of human endeavours including scholastic attainment. High academic performance requires
thorough progressive guidance, adequate preparations through constant supervisions and mentoring
from significant others which include but not limited to the learners, the teachers, school
administrators, counselling psychologists and concerned parents. However, some learners are fraught
with low academic performance and therefore would perform abysmally low. The low academic
performance could be due to many factors. Internal factors within learners and external factors which
could be positively managed to increase or activate high academic performance in the learners. This
study therefore seeks to establish the synergy between the internal and external factors through
effective mentoring to activate high academic performance in learners.