In education, academic performance has always been linked with assessments and evaluation of students’ results, which are basically related with students’ Intelligence Quotient (IQ) ability and forgetting other factors that are crucial for student’s wellbeing. Amongst those factors, emotions, personality, socioeconomics, conflicts and the challenges of making a good choice is related to each student’s personal development together with other process such as relationship, goals as well as uniqueness. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of these factors in the teaching and learning process of students in a new Diploma programme in Information Technology which may forecast their performance. To achieve this, we have conducted a survey with a small group of third year students at one of the rural University in South Africa, to identify the impact of these factors relative to their academic performance. The outcomes of this study shows that the above-mentioned factors are most of the time left out and that lead to students facing challenges but the support from Department, lecturers and other educational stockholders are important in assisting students to achieve their goals and excel in their studies.

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