Motivation is defined as an internal drive that activates a certain behavior in living creatures and it provides a direction to achieve a target. In the field of education, motivation refers to those factors that increase a student’s effort for better learning of the concepts taught at school. Spence and Helmreich (1983) defined achievement as task-oriented behaviour. Achievement Motivation could be described as a psychological need and energetic drive that prompts an individual to strive for accomplishing a specific task that results in satisfaction and self-worth. The study examines the achievement motivation of government higher secondary school students in Coimbatore district with a sample of 100 students studying in class the XI in Coimbatore district. The data are collected through survey method by adopting simple random sampling technique. The 5 point scale developed by the investigator is used as a measure for the study and‘t’ test was adopted to measure the significant difference between the variables. Consequently, no significant difference is found, through the study, between male and female students in their achievement motivation.