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Life Skills is very much essential for a teacher to deal with the challenges in the classroom. The purpose of this paper was to study the status of Life skills of B.Ed. Trainees. The major objectives of the study was to find whether there is significant difference between Life skills of B.Ed. Trainees on the basis of their gender, types of institution, medium of study, pedagogical specialization and educational qualifications. The population consisted of all the B.Ed. Trainees of Patna district and the sample consisted of 352 B.Ed. Trainees. Random sampling technique was used to select training institutions for the study and survey method was employed for data collection. A self-constructed and validated Life skills assessment scale (LSAS) was used to collect the data. Mean, S.D., t test, Anova was used to analyze the data to infer the findings. The findings of the study reveal that there is no significant difference between Life skills of B.Ed. Trainees on the basis of gender, types of institution, medium of study, pedagogical specialization and educational qualifications.