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<strong>Background:</strong> In academic settings, the goals that students pursue have a significant impact on students’ motivation, performance and emotions, a condition known as achievement emotion. <strong>Objectives:</strong> The goal of this research is to assess the effect of accomplishment goal on achievement emotion of students. <strong>Patients and Methods:</strong> The study comprised 380 elementary students of grades four to six. They completed self-report questionnaires tapping Achievement Goals Questionnaire (AGQ) and Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ) in the classroom during a school session. All descriptive statistics, regression and confirmatory factor analyses, were performed using SPSS 19. <strong>Results:</strong> Simultaneous multiple regression of achievement goals on students’ achievement motivation showed that, each of the achievement goals predicts achievement emotions differently. The findings are fully presented in the result section. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> The results of this study revealed that achievement goal is a significant factor in predicting achievement emotions. Actually, these results present evidence of the advantages of mastery goals and the disadvantages of performance avoidance goals.