This study explored the potential types of life goals in middle school 3rd grade and high school 2nd year of low-achieving students, and the effect of self-regulated learning affecting the type classification of life goals in each period and the type shift between time points and high school At the time of the second year, the difference in career identity and life satisfaction by life goal type was verified. The subjects of this study were 688 students who were in the bottom 33.7% of the Korean language subject scores in the middle school 3rd year among the students who participated in the 3rd and 5th years of the 1st panel of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey. The main research results are as follows. First, both the middle school and sophomore years were classified as ‘low-relationship below average’, ‘relationship-oriented average type’, and ‘high-relationship high goal’. Second, in the life goal area, the recognition of the importance of the relationship goal was the highest. Third, as a result of examining how the type of life goal transitions from the middle 3rd to the 2nd year of high school, the percentage of cases moving to a similar goal type was the highest. Fourth, the influence of self-regulation variables on the classification of potential types of life goals was significant only in ‘achievement value’ both in middle school and sophomore year. However, the self-regulated learning factor did not have a significant effect on the transition of life goal type. Fifth, in the second year of high school, the ‘high-relationship high goal’ type was found to be more positive in career identity and life satisfaction than the ‘low-relationship average’ or ‘relationship-oriented low-success’ group.