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Abstract Present education system, Assessment related issues become a most important topic of discussion for carried out as a part of teaching and learning. Formative Assessment is a continuous process by which we can diagnosis the strength and weakness of teachers, students, curriculum planner's achievement and easily carried out Remedial procedures in the ongoing courses .The study aimed to measure the Attitude towards Formative Assessment in respect of Gender, Locality and different streams of Post-graduate students . For this study 213 samples were selected by purposive sampling technique. Samples were classified in different strata, viz. Science stream students, Social Science stream students, Language stream students, Commerce stream students, Male and Female. Four major dimensions and various other dimensions have been taken. The broad dimensions are as follows: Aim of Formative Assessment, Procedures of Formative Assessment, Merits and demerits of Formative Assessment. Eight hypotheses were framed by researchers for reaching the findings of the study. After data analysis, it was found that there were no significant mean differences in the all hypotheses. There was no significant difference in respect of Gender, Locality and different streams of Post-graduate students in respect of Attitude towards Formative Assessment.