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ABSTRACT: Emotional learning begins at a very young age, as children discover a wide range of emotions and evolves as they grow. Emotions aims to provide a better understanding of the key stages of emotional development, its impact, interrelated skills and the factors that influence emotional competence. (Corolyn, 2011)1. OBJECTIVES : To find and compare awareness to express emotional growth among adolescent girls and boys and also to find association with selected demographic variables. Methods: A comparative study including population of 1000 adolescents girls and boys from 11th standard from selected colleges. Probability simple random sampling technique was used. Data was collected in 2019 using self-administered five point rating scales on awareness to express emotional growth. Test and re-test reliability method was done and r=0.83 . Results: The study shows average awareness score among boys was 86.6 with SD 2.5 whereas average awareness score among girls was 86.5 with SD 2.5. Z-value for this comparison was 1 with 998 degrees of freedom. Corresponding p-value was 0.147, which is large (greater than 0.05), there is no evidence against null hypothesis. The awareness to express emotional growth among boys and girls is same. Conclusion: The awareness to express emotional growth among boys and girls was found same can be due to setting of the study was urban were parents were graduate and post graduate and could give adequate teaching on emotional awareness to their child.