Abstract : Data mining is a method used for categorizing and predicting the performance of a student and a teacher as well. It helps both student and teacher in developing the teaching method and the entire system. Every student who uses this method get a huge favor from this. This helps students to choose the right career option. Currently, the tendency of providing immense importance to data mining techniques in the educational sector is increasing as these procedures have a huge necessity in bringing efficiency in both learning and teaching procedures. Each and every person is gathering a large amount of data every day, in case these data are not further examined; only the large amount of data will remain. With the latest systems and technologies, people can utilise these data and examine those and benefit from it. The best technique for this issue is the data mining process. Data mining is a method of bringing out the useful and disclosed data and information from big data sets. Educational data mining is a process from which teachers and students get a lot of help. Teachers are able to observe every student’s performance. On the other hand, students can choose a perfect and accurate career option by this process. This process utilises several techniques and methods such as statistics, machine learning, data analysis and data mining. Educational data mining is a method of raw information converting from a huge educational database to meaningful and effective information.

Keyword : Data mining, education, students