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Fuadil Munawwar Saym. 2025. Student ID Number, 212051008, Thesis Title : “The Effectiveness of Assertive Training Group Counselling in Reducing Academic Stress Among Students at State Senior High School 1, Guguak District”. Master’s Programme in Islamic Education Guidance and Counselling (BKPI) at the State Islamic University (UIN) Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The main issue discussed in this thesis is the high level of academic stress. To reduce this academic stress, various counselling approaches can be applied, but the researcher focuses on the use of group counselling using assertive training techniques. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of group counselling using assertive training techniques to reduce academic stress among students. This study employed a quantitative method with a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design. Data were obtained from an academic stress scale using a Likert scale measurement. The study population consisted of 27 students, and the sample consisted of 20 students selected using random sampling. Data analysis was performed using an independent samples t-test. Based on the results of the independent t-test, which showed a significance value of 0.048, which was below the significance level of 0.05. Thus, group counselling intervention using assertive training techniques proved to be effective in helping students manage and reduce stress levels related to academic demands. Therefore, it can be concluded that group counselling using assertive training techniques is not effective in reducing academic stress.