The future of any nation depends on its children. Values play an important role in shaping the character and personality of the children. The present study attempts to study the personal values of higher Secondary students. Normative survey method was employed. All higher Secondary school students of Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram and Chennai district constituted the population of the study. A 1050 sample were selected as sample by suing simple random technique and researcher constructed tool was used to collect data on personal values. The collected data were statistically analysed using Mean, S.D, ‘t’ test and ‘F’ test with support of spss. The findings revealed that there is significant difference in the Personal values of the higher secondary school students in relation to, Gender, Locality, and their Types of Schools.

Values, Personal values, higher secondary students.