INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH CULTURE SOCIETY

Abstract:    Reading Habits boosts cognitive skills like critical thinking, focus and memory, while enhancing communication abilities, including vocabulary and writing skills. Reading also broadens knowledge and empathy, providing new perspectives, and can be a source of stress reduction and entertainment.The present research study deals with finding out the level of reading habits in graduate students and also comparing the reading habits of male and female graduate Students.  The study involved 280 (140 males and 140 females) graduate students selected from 04 colleges of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. Descriptive survey method was used for conducting the study and random sampling technique was used for selecting the sample. Mean, S.D and t-test were used as the statistical techniques. The findings revealed that the reading habits in the graduate students are average and there is no significant difference between the reading habits of male and female graduate students.