A Comparative Study on Intelligence of Secondary School Students of Arunachal Pradesh

The present study investigated the Intelligence of Secondary School Students of Arunachal Pradesh. The study was conducted on eight hundred (800) class-X students by giving due representation to boys and girls as well as rural and urban localities of two districts in Arunachal Pradesh, namely East Siang and Lohit. The schools were selected using stratified random sampling technique. The selected schools belong to the category of government as well as private schools which are affiliated to CBSE i. e. , Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi and controlled and supervised by the Department of Education, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh. The descriptive survey method is used for data collection. As far as intelligence was measured by using the group test of mental ability constructed and standardized by Dr. S. Jalota. The findings of the study reported that on intelligence the mean scores of students of Lohit district is better than that of East Siang district, and comparison between government and private school students on intelligence of both the districts it is found that both districts private school students are mentally (intelligence) better than government school students.