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Calisthenic exercises leads to an improvement in overall strength and energy to the body, in turn promoting overall health. Calisthenics also improves mental health, which in turn helps in treating depression, stress, anxiety and the like. Title: "A study to assess the effectiveness of calisthenic exercises in reducing stress among nursing students in a selected college of nursing at dewas "Objectives: To assess the level of stress and find out the effectiveness of calisthenic exercises, associate the post test stress score with their selected demographic variables among nursing students. Methods and materials: A pre experimental design was chosen Non probability convenient sampling technique used to select the sample.60 nursing students were the sample. Perceived stress scale was used to assess the nursing students stress. Results: In pretest, the nursing students stress score was 23.12 after the administration of calisthenic exercise the post test stress score was 14.18 Difference is 8.94.It was statistically significant at p<0.001 level. Conclusion: Statistical significance was calculated by using chi square test and one way Anova-test, student paired t-test. After calisthenic exercise the stress level has reduced among nursing students. So calisthenic exercise has significant impact in reducing the stress among nursing students.