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Academic identity is a non-cognitive concept contributes to the classification of the individual within academic area that help to learn skills and strategies that contribute to raise the efficiency and enable him to carry out his tasks to the fullest .And find its relation to academic achievement. The researcher has found the suitable tool to achieve his goals. Then, he applied it to 120 distinctive students (male & female). The findings reveal that all of them made sense of academic identity, their academic achievement is very good and there is a significant relation between academic identity and academic achievement. In his early life, each human being looks forward to create a sense of his identity and personal entity. The society to which the individual belongs has great importance in creating this sense of belongingness and reframing this identity. Affiliation of the individual to the field of education and academy to create a sense of academic identity which is a non-cognitive concept contributes to the classification of the individual within this area and help to learn the skills and strategies that contribute to raise the efficiency and enable him to carry out his tasks to the fullest. The current research seeks to identify this concept, and its impact on the student's academic achievement. Therefore, the current research aims to: 1) identifying the academic identity and academic achievement of the distinctive students. 2) Identifying the differences in the academic identity and the academic achievement of the distinctive students according to the gender variable. 3) Identify the relationship between academic identity and academic achievement of the distinctive students. In order to achieve these goals, the researcher adopted a measure of academic identity (Decandia, 2014). Having verified its psychometric characteristics, it was applied to a sample of 120 students from distinguished student’s schools. After analyzing the data which obtained by the researcher, using the appropriate statistical methods, the following results emerged: 1) the individuals of the research sample formed a sense of academic identity male and female, and their academic achievement was very good. 2) No significant differences were found between males and females in both academic identity and academic achievement. 3) There is a strong positive relationship between the two variables of the research. The researcher concluded by presenting a set of recommendations and suggestions according to the results obtained. (Published Abstract)