Comparison of Scholastic Attainment in English and Math amongst Other Studies at the Higher Secondary Level: A Study using Mahalanobis Distance

The Mahalanobis Distance (MD) is applied in this investigation in order to analyze the dynamical character of academic attainment in five different disciplines including Mathematics, English, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry between two student groups of higher secondary class in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) regions in the state of Assam, India. There are five categories of groupings taken into account such as students under tribal and non-tribal backgrounds, boys and girls, urban and rural, urban boys and rural boys, urban girls and rural girls. In five disciplines, the MD is employed to compute the variance in the dynamical nature of attainment between two sections of learners. Despite the fact that urban students received better conditions than rural students, there is no substantial distinction in the dynamical character regarding attainment between urban and rural learners. Similar findings are reported for urban boys and rural boys, as well as urban girls and rural girls. It is also found that there is no statistically substantial variation between tribal and non-tribal students, and between boys and girls.