People use many ways to cope with stress. Students also use different strategies to cope with stress. Examination stress is the most common stress that students experience naturally. The level of this stress among higher secondary students is comparatively high because this stage is the most crucial stage of education in India as it determines the future path of the students. The present study is an attempt to find out the coping strategies used by the higher secondary students and to investigate whether there are any differences in the coping strategies of the students in respect to their gender and locality. 200 higher secondary final year students have taken as sample for this study. Stratified random sampling technique was used to collect the sample and descriptive research design has been used for this study. Results show no gender wise difference in coping strategies of the students, but significant difference has been found in emotion focused coping of the students in respect to their locality. Emotion focused coping is significantly higher for the students of rural area than the students who are from urban area. However, no locality wise difference has been found in problem focused coping of the students.
