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Present study is an attempt to investigate frustration, creativity and school performance of adventitiously visually impaired. As perusal of researches conducted in the area of Visual impairment reveals that some attempts have been made to understand visually impaired its characteristics and their performance in different fields including academic achievement. But these studies are including academic achievement are inconclusion. it may be because the investigators have combined both types of blinds in the sample of their research. However, some attempts have been made to study them according to the type of Visual impairment. But no attempt seems to have been made to compare congenital and adventitious blind on psychological factors frustration and creativity and school performance in subject after eliminating the effect of socioeconomic status and intelligent therefore it was felt to study this population keeping in mind the age of onset of blindness. 123 visually impaired students belonging to three institutions were selected for the sample of study. Frustration test by N.S.Chauhan and Govind Tiwari was used. Creativity test by Bakar mehndi, Socio-economic status scale by R.L.Bhardwaj and N.S Chauhan was used for intelligence test P.N. Mehrotra test was used.The data was collected through interview technique since the measuring instruments were not available in braille script. It was concluded that acquired visual loss is found more in lower socio-economic status.Adventitiously visually impaired differ significantly on the relationship between creativity and performance in school subjects.