The Readers Club Survey was conducted during December- February as part of a project. A total of 19 students were surveyed and their analysis were prepared. There were 14 CBSE Students and 5 State Students. All of the respondents have Malayalam as their mother tongue. The complete analysis is the following-
All the schools have libraries and a majority
of students visit their libraries other than their Library periods.
Almost 58% of the students visit other
libraries and for a majority of students School Library is the source for
getting reading materials(58%)
All the students borrow books from the
school library and 74% of them take Recreations such as Novels, Stories etc.
English is the most read language(89%)
followed by Malayalam(37%) and Hindi(11%).
GK and Fact books are the most referred
book (63%) followed by Encyclopedias(53%) and Dictionaries(37%).
News papers are read by all the
students while only 68% of the students read Magazines. The Hindu is the most read paper(68%) while
Mathrubhumi and Malayalamanorama are read by 63% and 26% of the students
respectively. 79% of the students get the news papers
and magazines through Subscription at home. Sports is the most read section
(63%) followed by Editorial(37%). Local News is the next most read section.
National News and International News are read in small quantities.
The students were asked to rank the
books. Among our respondents General Knowledge was the most ranked.
—63% of the students said that they have
a library at home. 74% of the students said that they write the reviews of the
books that they have read.
—37% of the students read 3-4 books in a
month. 26% of the students read 5-6 books while 21% of the students read 1-2
books in a month. 11& of the students read 7-8 books in a month and 5%
read more than 9 books in a month.
—37% of the students pick a book by
reading its review while for others Friends opinion counts. 26% of the students
just picks up the book randomly. 11% of the students choose the books because
of their Parents recommendation.
—42% of the students said that they read
books on internet while others said that they don’t read them because of
different reasons some of them being that they don’t like it, they are
not aware and no internet connection.
All the students agree that reading is
very important for students. 53% of the students agreed to the talk that is
going on in the public- that reading is diminishing.
58% of the students have no preference
to the reading times while 26% of the students said that they prefer reading at
night. Enid
Blyton, Charles Dickens, Chetan Bagat, Roald Dahl and many more authors made it
to the list of the students favorite authors. Books written by these authors
and also a few extras were there in the list of Favorite books.
Done by- Vishnu V Kumar
M.Sharan kishore
Nirupam V
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