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This dissertation involves the study of the behavior of soft story located at intermediate level in high rise building under seismic loading. Unfortunately, open first floors are an inescapable aspect of many urban multistory structures in India nowadays. The main reason for adopting this is to make room for parking or reception lobbies in the first story. The goal of the current analytical study is to determine how certain parameters affect a structure with soft story behavior. The aspect of difference in performance of a building with a soft story under seismic forces is described in this thesis, specifically for different places of the soft story along the height of the building structure. This thesis examines a twelve-story moment-resisting RC-framed building for zone V. The fourteen models of the twelve-story RC-framed building are prepared. Bare frame model, infill & other twelve versions of infill frame are studied, each with one Soft Story (one story at a time from bottom to top, by removing the masonry infill in that Story). The computer program ETABs is used for modelling the whole building. The analytical findings are discussed in terms of base shear, lateral displacement, lateral forces and maximum bending moment.