Aptitude and academic performance of adolescents

Present study explores the abstract and verbal reasoning (aptitude) among science and arts students. It is aimed to find out the difference between science and arts students in terms of abstract and verbal reasoning, and academic performance. A sample of 84 (42 each from science and arts group stream) students has been taken from a government school of Tehri-Garhwal (Uttrakhand-India). Data is collected by administering Differential Aptitude Test (DAT). It is examined through the significance of the difference between means. Results show

That there is found significant difference between science and arts students in terms of abstract and verbal reasoning (DAT). No significant difference is found in terms of academic performance among students. It is concluded that there can be important role of abstract and verbal reasoning among science and arts students for their aptitude but not for academic performance.