abstract
Life skill training has become a significant component of education. Those are essential to promotes mental wellbeing and competence in young people to face the realities in life in the society. The Purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness life skill training on academic performance and personality development about time management, cleanliness, self-awareness, make healthy peer group among B.Sc. nursing first year students. A pre-experimental one group pretest post-test research design was adopted for the study, 60 samples from B.Sc. nursing first year students were selected using simple random sampling technique. Pre-test was conducted by using self-structured questionnaire followed with life skill training programme which consists of time management, cleanliness, self-awareness, develop a healthy peer group and stress management was taught to the students for 10 sessions thrice in a week after the last session post-test was done. The study findings showed that the pretest and posttest on academic performance and personality development mean score was 9.65 and 14.33 respectively with standard deviation of 2.59 and 2.27 in each variable. The paired `t` value was 18.025 which revealed that there was a highly statistically significant difference between the pretest and post test on academic performance and personality development at p<0.05.