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Government job is considered as a secure and permanent job that is why everyone wants to get that. But in India job opportunities are very less for one single post thousands of students are competing to each other because of over population. Due to that students are entering in a new academic and competitive world where they are confronted with multiple transition challenges. The challenges are compounded as they experience higher academic work load and family expectations. These challenges are coupled with the stress which covered a person for the future security of life. Due to their immaturity and future uncertainties, they seem not to have any control over the situation. The present research investigated the stress of such students those are preparing for upcoming government jobs declared by central and state government. A sample of 300 students was drawn randomly from the Kavya, Lakshya, Dronacharya, Soni, Saakar, Yuvaam, Pioneer and Mahalaxmi coaching institutes for competition of Kota city. Self- prepared Students Stress Inventory (SSI) was administered to get information from the subjects. The result of the present study revealed that students are affected by self-inflicted, parent inflicted, and peer inflicted stress and they also experience a high amount of these stresses.