OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

For the present study following are the objectives of study:

• To compare the interest of students scoring below 80 % and above 80 % marks at SSC in Maharashtra.
• To compare the interest of students scoring below 80 % and above 80 % marks at SSC in Maharashtra as per their Parents income / financial condition.

Sample

For current study researcher selected population from three Tahsils (Wai, Khandala & Koregaon) from Satara district by random sampling method [2]. From these three Tahsils he visited 11 junior colleges. The XII Std Science students from these colleges were selected randomly (Table 1).

Out of these total 785 students 635 students are from rural background and 150 students are from urban background. The number of male and female students is 350 and 435 respectively. From the students total 147 English medium, 205 Marathi medium, 431 Semi-English and 2 Urdu medium have their medium of study up to 10^th level. As per financial condition is concerned the annual income of parents is as below. Rs 0 - 1,00,000, 683 students, Rs 1,00,001 - 2,50,000, 49 students, Rs 2,50,001 - 8,00,000, 39 students and above Rs 8,00,000, 14 students. 357 students have their 10th percentage below 80 % and 428 students have their 10th percentage above 80 %.

DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE

For measuring the interest in Physics researcher adopted the following procedure (Flow chart).

As per above flow chart initially researcher studied all syllabus from std V^th to XII^th related with physics. Researcher himself is working in Kisan Veer Jr. college, Wai at +2 level as an assistant teacher in physics. Then he constructed Physics Interest Inventory (PII) containing 145 statements. The option for the statements is Like(L), Indifferent (I) and Dislike (D). Then he conducted pilot study of PII on 100 students. After discussion with experts & students researcher made some corrections. Then he conducted the first try out on 200 students from Shirval, Tal- Khandala & Wai, Tal- Wai of Satara district. He analyzed the result and by taking opinion of students, teachers and experts he modified the interest inventory. Then he developed the Google form of it. Then from three Tahsils namely Wai, Khandala and Koregaon of Satara district he conducted the survey in 11 Junior colleges. Total 785 students participated. Then in analysis he allotted 1 mark for Like(L), 0 mark for Indifferent(I) and -1 mark for Dislike(D). After that he calculated the physics interest scores of all students by using Microsoft Excel [3].

Then for analysis of data by using Microsoft Excel researcher compared the scores of students scoring below 80 % and above 80 % marks at SSC in Maharashtra.

1. Schools of the students.
2. Financial condition of the parents.

Analysis of data

Researcher used average scores of students with above attributes. In addition to that He prepared Graphs i.e. Pie diagram, Bar Graphs & Histograms.

Table 2 and Figures 1 & 2 showing No of students scoring below 80 % and above 80 % marks & Avg. score of Interest in Physics for same students as per their schools.

By observing or calculating the averages he observed following scores (Table 3 and Figures 3 & 4).

Table 4 and Figures 5 & 6 showing No of students scoring below 80 % and above 80 % marks at SSC & Avg. score of Interest in Physics as per their parent’s income level.

Table 5 and Figures 7 & 8 showing the average scores for students considering the income level of parents i.e. 0 - 1 Lakh, 1 - 2.5 Lakh, 2.5 - 8 Lakh & above 8 Lakh.

CONCLUSIONS

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  Table 1
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  Table 2
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  Table 3
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  Table 4
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  Table 5