A Study of Reasoning Ability with Respect to Their Gender Among School Students

All people do not alike. There are many dimensions of differences in cognition, but humans, naturally being an evaluative species, tend to focus on the ways in which some people perform better on cognitive task than others. This performance is often identified with the word intelligence. Intelligence refers as general mental ability for reasoning and problem solving. Reasoning ability includes ability to solve the problem and arrive at solution in a logical way and also leads to the better adjustment with the environment. The present research was aimed to measure the reasoning ability of school students with the “Differential Aptitude Test”. Indian adaptation of this battery (Hindi Version) by Ojha (1961) has been used. A sample of 200 students (100 boys and 100 girls) of 9^th and 10^th grade from different private schools of Rohtak district in Haryana was selected randomly. It was found that girls performed better on verbal and abstract reasoning and boys performed better on mechanical reasoning.