Elena Yashenko

The results of a research of peculiarities of motivation of learning at pupils of the eighth and tenth classes of secondary school received by means ofboth standardized and a projective techniques are presented in the article.Interrelations of indicators of progress, orientation on acquisition of knowledge, orientation on a mark and fear of failures with some accentuated types of the personality and distinctions between them at eighth and tenth-graders are revealed.The orientation on a mark is more significant for eighth-graders.The research of not declared motivation has revealed the lack of a significant role of learning in the structure of pupils’ motivation.