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Background and Objectives: Urban adolescents in the Indian society are exposed to numerous-emotional issues due to changing socioeconomic environment evolving in the urban middle class and lower middle class societies across the country. This is compounded by the severe competitive ferocity to build their livelihood on the basis of academic performance. Performance in academic evaluations in the adolescent period forms the basis of entry into professional and vocational programs leading to a career choice. While some students cope with the adversities with fortitude, many students do not have the necessary coping skills to overcome adversities. Academic resilience is the ability to overcome psychological pressure imposed by socioeconomic adversities and yet perform well in the academic evaluations. This variation in academic resilience determines who continue to thrive despite adversities and those who fall be the way side. Accordingly, there is a need not just to enhance the scholastic skills in adolescents but also work on their academic resilience through appropriate counselling methodologies. The objective of this study is to analyse the nature of relationship between academic resilient traits and their actual performance in scholastic tests. The study is carried out in a sample of high school students studying in Public school and come from low socioeconomic background. This profile of students is highly susceptible to stressful conditions coupled with low societal support mechanisms to overcome them. Methods: The resilience and scholastic performance are measured using appropriate inventories backed by secondary data on their school marks. The data has been subjected to statistical analysis to understand the nature of relationship between the variables. Results: The study reveals that there is a significant correlation between level of resilience and the scholastic performance of students after eliminating the outliers. There is no significant difference between girls and boys with respect their scholastic abilities as well as their resilience attributes. The study reveals that early adolescents are less resilient compared to late adolescents. A phenomenological study of the outliers reveals the impact of environmental protective factors and innate scholastic abilities on their scholastic performance. Conclusion: Based on the outcome of the studies, appropriate counselling interventions can be developed to enhance the resilience capabilities & scholastic skills of adolescents so that their academic performance may be enhanced leading to their ability to pursue the career of their choice and their capabilities.