Abstract
Education instill in the child a sense of maturity and responsibility by bringing in him the desired changes according to his needs and demands of ever changing society, of which he is an integral part. The descriptive method of research was justified in view of the objective of the study. All the students of 10th class of district Shimla constituted the population of the study. From the selected district, 10 schools (5 - rural area school and 5 - urban area school) were taken on the basis of random sampling. In the third step 22 students were drawn randomly from 10th class of each school. The total sample was consists of 220 hundred urban and rural students. The investigator used General Mental Ability Test for data collection. The t-test statistical technique was used in this study. The rural and urban students do not differ significantly on the variable of academic achievement and intelligence.
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