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Intermittent exotropia is the most common form of childhood exotropia with an incidence of 32.1 per 100,000 in children under 19 years of age. Onset of the deviation is believed to be in the first few years of life with a female preponderance.3 Exodevation occurs more commonly in middle east subequatorial africa and orient in united state. Study was aimed to analyzed how common is intermittent exotropia among strabismus age group 5-25 years. 75 subjects having strabismus were enrolled into the study. All the subjects were screened from tertiary eye care centre . The brief history and visual assessment along with refractive error correction for distance and near were assessed. With best corrected visual acuity orthoptic evaluation is done including sensory ,motor evaluation ,fixation ,ocular motility and patch test were done in subjects having intermittent exotropia. The maximum subjects were in age group of 20-25 years are affected in intermittent XT . 63% of subjects were males and 37 % were females are found in intermittent XT. The prevalence of intermittent exotropia among all patients of strabismus visiting tertiary eye care centre is found to be approximately one fourth(25.33%).