Impact of Gender and Different Boards of Examination on Career Decision

Career is a very important aspect of a person’s life structure. Career is a profession through which students’ progress and progress in their life and are able to take advantage of opportunities. Choosing a career is considered to be the most important step in a student’s life. Choosing a career is considered to be the most important step in a student’s life. It is believed that due to lack of maturity in adolescence, students face difficulty in choosing a career, sometimes shortage of time, choosing among many options and determining the next goal after achieving the goal, there are a lot of obstacles And at such times, mental conflict starts arising among the students, due to which they have to face many kinds of problems. The primary purpose of the present investigation has to examine the impact of gender and different boards of examination on career decision. When a student chooses a career, they take the decision influenced by ability, personality, interest, self-concept, social support, school environment, peer group etc. A total of 360 adolescents have been taken in this study from CBSE board and Bihar board of Darbhanga city. Out of which 180 are from CBSE board (90 boys and 90 girls) and 180 are from Bihar board (90 boys and 90 girls). The measures of this study by career decision through career decision making scale developed by Kirandeep Singh and self-made questionnaire for collecting the data related to socio-demographic variables. The design of this study is the 2×2 factorial design. The findings show that there is no significant difference between gender and career decision, while a significant difference was found between boards and career decision. State board students are slightly behind CBSE school students in career decision scores. On the basis of gender, CBSE boys are less good than girls in taking career decisions. A significant difference was found in their career decision scores. Whereas boys of state board are better in taking career decisions than girls. The purpose of this study seems to be exploring how gender and the type of examination boards might influence individual’s career decision. It could aim to identify potential patterns or disparities in career choice based on these factors.