Keywords
English and Mathematics
T-test
Correlation and Assam
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Abstract
This investigative study has been undertaken to observe a comparison of the scholastic performance between English and Mathematics of 21st century relating to 12th grade students belonging to Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) of Assam, India. For in-depth study, a descriptive survey method was employed to find out the nature of the investigation. Two thousand two hundred fifty mathematics and English student completers of twelfth grader in BTR are randomly selected in this investigation. Statistical techniques like descriptive statistics, t-tests, correlation are applied to determine the nature of the problem of scholastic performance between English and Mathematics. After analysis, it is found that there is a negative trend towards learning mathematics compare to English. Revelation from the study it is given to understand that a remarkable difference has been found in respect of the scholastic performance between English and Mathematics of the said region. Further, the study adequately reveals that a significant difference has been found among the boys, girls, tribal, non-tribal as well as rural and urban students regarding their scholastic performance in between the two subjects as mentioned.
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