The present study was attempted to examine the role of paternal and maternal parenting styles as predictor of students’ academic achievement. Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991) further translated in Urdu by (Babree, 1997) was used to collect the information from participants. Student’s result of previous final Exam was taken as Academic Achievement. Sample of the present study was consist on the F.A/F.Sc students (N= 350) of final year. Simple linear regression analysis was applied to test the hypothesis. The result of the study showed that maternal and paternal authoritative style was a positive predictor of academic achievement of adolescent. While maternal and paternal authoritarian styles of parents was found to be a negative predictor of academic achievement. The results for permissive parenting style of both mother and father were non-significant. The present study provided an insight to the roles of parenting to academic achievement