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Pannalal, S. (2001). A Comparative Study of Hindi Reading Ability of Urban and Rural Students in Terms of Social-economic Status, Reasoning Ability and Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students of Bhopal Division. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Barkatullah University, Bhopal.

The objectives of study were: (1) To find out the difference between Rural and Urban students in context to Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and the Achievement . (2) To find out the difference between Boys and Girls in context to Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and the Achievement . (3) To find out the difference between Urban and Rural Girls in context to Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and the Achievement . (4) To find out the difference between Urban Boys and Rural Boys in context to Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and the Achievement . (5) To study the correlation in Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and the Achievement of Urban students. (6) To study the correlation in Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and the Achievement of Rural students. (7) To study the influence of Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement independent variables on Reading Ability of the Urban and Rural students separately. (8) To study the correlation between Reading Ability and Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement of Urban and Rural students.

The hypotheses of study were: (1) There is no significant difference between Rural and Urban students in terms of Reading Ability. (2) There is no significant difference between Rural and Urban students in terms of Reasoning Ability. (3) There is no significant difference between Rural and Urban students in terms of SES and Achievement separately. (4) There is no significant difference between Boys and Girls in terms of Reasoning Ability, SES, Reading Ability and Achievement separately. (5) There is no significant difference between Rural and Urban Girls in terms of SES, Achievement, Reading Ability and Reasoning Ability separately. (6) There is no significant difference between Rural and Urban Boys in terms of Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES, and Achievement separately. (7) There is no significant difference in the Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement of all the students. (8) There is no significant difference in the Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement of all students. (9) There is no significant difference in the Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement of all students. (10) Independent variables (Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement) have no contribution towards Reading Ability. (11) Independent variables (Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement) have no contribution towards Reading Ability of Rural and Urban students separately. (12) There is no significant correlation between Reading Ability and Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement separately of all the Boys and Girls of Rural and Urban students.

Sample comprised of randomly selected 600 students of 10^th class of Rural and Urban areas of Bhopal division.

Reasoning Ability by L.L. Dubey, SES Scale by Rajeev Lochan Bhardwaj et al., Reading Ability by Prabhjot and Achievement Test was developed by researcher for data collection.

The present study was descriptive in nature.

The data were analyzed by t - Test, Correlation and Regression Method.

The findings of study were: (1) Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement in Hindi of Urban students were found to be superior to Rural students. (2) There was no difference between Boys and Girls in relation to Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability and SES separately. (3) Achievement of Girls was found to be higher than Boys. (4) Urban Girls were better than Rural Girls in terms of Reading Ability, Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement separately. (5) Urban Boys were found to be better than Rural Boys in terms of Reading Ability and Reasoning Ability while in terms of SES and Achievement, they were same. (6) There was no significant correlation between Reading Ability and Reasoning Ability, SES, Achievement separately of all students. (7) There is significant correlation between Reading Ability and reasoning, SES, Achievement separately in Rural and Urban students separately. (8) It was found that Reasoning Ability, SES and Achievement contributed significantly towards Reading Ability. (9) There was significant correlation of Reading Ability to Reasoning, SES & Achievement separately.

Keyword(s): Comparative Study, Reading Ability, Hindi, Urban and Rural Students