Teka, Solomon(PhD)Berihun, Kibruyisfa2018-06-202023-11-092018-06-202023-11-092005-06http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/2079This study is rendered to examine the pseudo perception of top ten, grade twelve preparatory students in each class, in Lideta sub-city, on the correlation of academic and physical proficiencies, the motive of the researcher to undertake the study is on one hand to see the association of the physical development with that of intellectual and determine their correlation on the other hand to assess the perception of those ranked students towards the school physical education engagement and physical activities at large in any case to do so (to make the study practical and viable) the researcher customized descriptive co relational method and the sampling procedure is deliberative(convenient) sampling and the sample size was 100 participants that were engaged by the study, in connection with this the data sources were both the primary and secondary, as the primary data gathering procedure questionnaires , focus group discussion and interviews were prepared and questionnaires were constructed and distributed for both those top ten students and for those PE teachers of those ranked students at the study areas whereas the interview were semi structured type and the items constructed and presented(interviewed) for those aforesaid PE teachers (interviewees) and while the focus group discussion where carried on for those four selected PE teachers, all the activates have been recorded with tape recorder and what have you as the secondary data sources the researcher has been operationalised the literature review which clearly showed the association of academic performance with that of physical efficacy in a positive comportment and as the secondary data sources the researcher has been organized a check list in order to observe the physical features and related phenomena within the study areas ,having said all these things about the nature of the study and data sources the data that was obtained by questionnaires were analyzed and interpreted quantitatively with tabulation in percentage whereas the rest aforesaid data sources have been analyzed and interpreted qualitatively at the end findings, conclusions and recommendations have taken their own places and they approved a positive direction. Key terms: physical proficiency, academic achievement, deliberative sampling, pseudo perception, correlationenPhysical Proficiency; Academic Achievement; Deliberative Sampling; Pseudo Perception; CorrelationThesis