Background: In academic settings, the goals that students pursue have a significant impact on students’ motivation, performance and EMOTIONS, a condition known as ACHIEVEMENT emotion.Objectives: The goal of this research is to assess the effect of accomplishment goal on ACHIEVEMENT emotion of students.Patients and Methods: The study comprised 380 elementary students of grades four to six. They completed self-report questionnaires tapping ACHIEVEMENT Goals Questionnaire (AGQ) and ACHIEVEMENT EMOTIONS Questionnaire (AEQ) in the classroom during a school session. All descriptive statistics, regression and confirmatory factor analyses, were performed using SPSS 19.Results: Simultaneous multiple regression of ACHIEVEMENT goals on students’ ACHIEVEMENT motivation showed that, each of the ACHIEVEMENT goals predicts ACHIEVEMENT EMOTIONS differently. The findings are fully presented in the result section.Conclusions: The results of this study revealed that ACHIEVEMENT goal is a significant factor in predicting ACHIEVEMENT EMOTIONS.Actually, these results present evidence of the advantages of mastery goals and the disadvantages of performance avoidance goals.