Reading Comprehension in English of High School Students in Relation to Certain Variables

Education of a child is imperfect, unless he/she is equipped with the ability to read, to decipher, to interpret and to understand properly the contents of the material being read.
The present study intends to find out the reading comprehension of the High School students, with respect to certain variables. "The Reading Comprehension Test in English", constructed and validated by Pramila Ahuja (1999) has been administered to a random sample of 300 students studying in different schools of Cuddalore educational district of Tamilnadu state. These were categorized on the basis of their gender, type of management and, location of the school. The study reveals that only small percentage of the students involved in the study possessed better reading comprehension.