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Emotional intelligence is a driving factor that can contribute to students' success. An emotionally intelligent student would tend to seek mature and rational solutions to the problems that they encounter. Conversely, a lack of emotional intelligence tends to lead to anger and defiance, loneliness and depression, impulsive aggression, and negativeoutlook towards life. In the present era the ‘We’ factor is more important than the ‘I’ factor. Hence it is more important for today’s young generation to have high levels of Emotional Quotient.The purpose of the study was to compare the emotional intelligence of adolescent boys and girls. The sample consisted of 55 adolescence boys and 55 adolescence girlsstudying in the schools situated in western suburbs of Mumbai. Emotional intelligence scale developed by Hyde et al. (1971) was used. Results showed significant difference between boys and girlswith respect to their emotional intelligence.