Abstract The study was conducted in Gerchech Secondary School with the objective of investigating the poor performance of grade ten students in physics. To this effect, the study tried to answer three basic questions in relation to the feeling, perception and reaction of students towards investigation of the poor performance in physics academic performance. Since the research was designed to assesses and investigate the poor performance of students in physics, a quantitative research approach was used. Hence a descriptive survey research design was applied to investigate and describe the problem. Sample of the study was 96 students selected among the population by systematic random sampling technique. The questionnaire on the part of the students’ poor performance of investigation contained three categories of feeling`s, perception`s and reaction`s with a total of 35 items of which 10 for feelings,12 for perceptions and 13 for reactions. Quantitative data were coded and analyzed using SPSS version 20.the result of the study indicates that overall investigation of the poor performance of students was negative, in particular positive for Perception and reaction and feeling were negative. It is concluded that issues of sufficient number of physics teachers, commitment to support the students in performing physics activities, keeping morals of the teachers to support in investigating the poor performance of students in physics are key points. Based on this, physics teachers being key people in relation to the problem were recommended to consider the existing status of physics teaching-learning in the school. Keywords: Investigation, performance, poor performance, physics, methodology, Laboratory activity, Secondary school