Academic tracking aids student to realize the way to develop the abilities and skills to the maximum possible extent within the given time duration, removing the obstacles in their way, eliminating problems that student’s face and support them to attain career goals. Students’ perception of academic tracking has a strong influence on the development of academic identity, which in turn results in greater academic achievement. Hence an attempt is made to study the perception of students on existing academic tracking practices and how it impacts the student’s academic achievement at College of Technology (COTs) at Oman. The objectives of the present research are to examine the existing academic tracking system at College of Technology’s, to study the student’s perception on the existing academic tracking system and to study the influence of academic tracking on student’s greater academic achievement. Structured questionnaire was built and a survey was conducted at a College of Technology covering all the academic departments say English Language Centre, Business studies, Information Technology, Engineering department and all the four levels of education namely Diploma year 1 and 2, Advance Diploma and Bachelorate. The collected data were analyzed using Summary statistics and percentage analysis, Likert’s five-point scaling technique with mean analysis, Chi Square analysis and the results were drawn out, based on which findings, recommendations and conclusions were sought.

Academic tracking aids student to realize the way to develop the abilities and skills to the maximum possible extent within the given time duration, removing the obstacles in their way, eliminating problems that student’s face and support them to attain career goals. Students’ perception of academic...