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The paper focuses on finding the relationships between the frequency of experiencing positive and negative emotional states, students' subjective evaluation of the subjects of mathematics, Slovak language and literature, English language, civics and physical education in terms of their popularity, difficulty and importance, and school achievement in these subjects. The research population consisted of 168 (100%) pupils second and third-year pupils of a secondary vocational school in Žilina. The research included: the Subjective Emotional Habitual Well-being Questionnaire (Džuka, Dalbert, 2002) and the Attitudes to Learning Subjects Questionnaire for Pupils (Hrabal, Pavelková, 2010). The most important results of the research revealed that the teaching subject of mathematics was rated the worst in all the surveyed items. Pupils perceived mathematics as the least favourite subject, the most challenging, the least important. They had the worst average school achievement in it, experienced the most negative and least frequently positive emotional state of all the subjects studied. English was the most significant teaching subject. Physical education was the most popular subject taught to the students. Pupils' attitudes towards the subjects taught did not change much over time, being stable and unambiguous. Only the subject of mathematics, which current pupils perceived to be less popular and less important than in the past, showed a change. We found a high correlation between the frequency of experiencing a positive state of mind and the popularity of the assessed teaching subjects in mathematics and physical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]