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Students' progress in their learning is heavily influenced by their attitude. A favourable attitude toward mathematics might boost pupils' metacognition and help them obtain good performance in arithmetic. The purpose of this quantitative survey is to investigate the relationship between pre-university students' attitudes toward mathematics in terms of interest, confidence, anxiety, and students' impression of mathematics usefulness and their accomplishment in Mathematics T in Kinta Utara, Perak. The convenience sample method was used to recruit 211 pre-university students from ten schools in Kinta Utara, including Form 6 College. Data is gathered online using a translated questionnaire from Fennema and Sherman's (1976) Attitude Measure Instrument. The data was analysed with SPSS 26 using the independent t-test and Pearson correlation. The data analysis revealed that there is no statistically significant difference in attitude between male and female pre-university pupils. These four attitude components have a strong relationship with students' progress in Mathematics T. Interest (r=.266), confidence (r=.342), and students' sense of Mathematics usefulness (r=.631) all have a positive significant link with students' achievement, however anxiety (r=-.173) has a negative correlation. Overall, in Kinta Utara, students' attitudes (r=.562) correspond somewhat with students' achievement in Mathematics T. This study shows that attitude constructs, i.e., interest, confidence, anxiety, and students’ perception of mathematic usefulness, have an influence on the achievement of pre-university students in Mathematics T in Kinta Utara, Perak.
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