A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CAREER INTEREST INCLINATION WITHIN COMMERCE STREAM BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN COMMERCE STUDENT OF MAHARASHTRA STATE

The present study investigated the Interest inclination within the commerce stream. The study was conducted on Twelve hundred and four (1204) 11th& 12th Commerce students by giving due representation to boys and girls as well as rural and urban location of the six administrative regional zone in Maharashtra state, namely: Pune, Aurangabad, Amravati, Nasik, Kokan and Nagpur. The High schools were selected using stratified random sampling technique. The selected schools are affiliated to the Higher Secondary School Board controlled by the department of education, government of Maharashtra. The descriptive survey method is used for data collections. Interest inclination within the commerce stream was measured through Commerce Interest Inventory (CII). The finding of the study reported that, i) comparisons between rural and urban students on CII shows that urban students are higher on …… than Urban Students, ii) on ……..Urban Students were higher on ……..Than ruler students. ii) Comparisons between male and female students on CII show that male students are higher on.. Than female students on....