ABSTRACT
The schools were closed for the 2020-2021 academic sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of the present study was to explore the effects of school closure on the achievement motivation of school-going adolescents. This case study involved 67 no. of students (54 from 10th grade and 13 from 9th grade) in the age group of 14-15 years. The researcher conducted several students' self-reporting sessions and performed an 'content analysis' process for data analysis. The results represent that they didn't set their achievement goal to attain a high standard of excellence and due to this lack of achievement goals, those students had been neglecting their studies throughout two academic sessions. They had no drive for learning in their mind so they didn't put effort to learn and refrained from working hard. Those school-going adolescents were not involved to accomplish their learning goals. Most of the students couldn't understand the lesson alone at home and also face difficulties going through the online classes properly. So, they were not interested to study at home and it was not an enjoyable mode of study for them. In a word, those school-going adolescents had no achievement motivation, so they lost the desire to study.