Social Intelligence and Academic achievement of College Students: A Study of District Pulwama

The study was undertaken to assess the social intelligence and academic achievement of college students. 300 college students (150 male & 150 female college students) comprised the sample for the study. The sample was taken from different colleges of district Pulwama by using random sampling technique. Social Intelligence scale (Chadha & Ganesan, 1986) was used to collect the data for the study. The data was analyzed by applying mean, S.D and t-test. The results of the study depicted that male college students are confident and have good memory as compared to female college students whereas female college students are more patient, co-operative, sensitive, recognized to social environment, tactful and good sense of humour than male college students. Further the results showed that female college students have better academic achievement than male college students.