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The study was conducted to find out the level of General Awareness Skills and whether there exists any significance difference among secondary level prospective teachers based on gender. Subsamples based on locale of the respondent, subject of specialization and type of management of the institution. Survey method was adopted by selecting 360 prospective teachers from secondary level Teacher Education colleges in Kerala. Stratified random sampling technique was adopted. A standardised Questionnaire on General Awareness Skills ( Prajiba, P.V., & M. Jesa, 2017) and a Test on Reading Comprehension were used to find out the level of general awareness skills. Study was found that the secondary level prospective teachers possess adequate or satisfactory level of general awareness skills and there existed no significance difference in general awareness skills in total among secondary level prospective teachers based on gender, locality, type of management and subject specialisation. Study also revealed that there existed significant difference in the categories of general awareness skills on Thinking and Communication skill among prospective teachers based on gender. Key words: General awareness skill, Gender, Prospective teachers.