The outbreak of pandemic of COVID-19 was affected the education system; hence, this study aims to identify the relationship between students’ motivation, self-efficacy, situational factor and their performance in Mathematics and also to explore which students’ readiness most influence students’ performance in subject of Mathematics. The respondent of this study consisted of 105 form five students from SMK Bakti. The method of data collection involves the constructions of a questionnaire in the form of Google Form, and it is distributed online to respondents through WhatsApp application. The research finding indicates that there are no significance relationship between students’ motivation, self-efficacy as well as environmental factors and students’ performance in Mathematics subject. The researcher also found that motivations are the most affect students’ performance compared to self-efficacy and situational factors. Therefore, the school and parents can work together and monitor their children so that they are stay motivated and more focused on their studies.
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