A STUDY OF MENTAL ABILITY OF HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS

The purpose of the paper is to determine the mental ability of higher secondary students in Vellore district of Tamilnadu. The sample comprised 300 higher secondary students out of these 148 male and 152 female. The investigator used the statistical techniques, mean, standard deviation ’t’ test and ‘F’ test. The results reveal that there is no significant difference between the gender, type of school, locality of school, medium of school, nature of school, parental education, parental occupation, birth order and type of family towards mental ability