The present study aims to assess the risk-taking behavior among adolescent secondary school students. The investigator has employed normative survey method to assess the risk-taking behavior of secondary school students. The sample size of the study was one hundred adolescent higher secondary school students. The simple random sampling technique was operated by the investigator for collection of respondents for the study. The investigator employed the risk taking behavior assessment scale for assessing the risk-taking behavior among secondary school students. The analysis of data revealed that there is no significant difference in the risk taking behavior among adolescent higher secondary school male and female students and followed by rural and urban students. The investigator suggests that parents and teachers should identify their possible and impossible risk-taking by the adolescent higher secondary school students and direct them properly to achieve their targets.

Risk taking behavior, Adolescent, higher secondary school students.