INTRODUCTION : Evaluation of Manual Dexterity is important in school going children from 5 to 15 years. It is essential in children in like other factors like fine manual integration and fine manual precision. The Purpose of this study was to find out the total scores in children to compare according to gender and descriptive category according to age group.

OBJECTIVES. 1. To find out manual dexterity point score and descriptive category among genders . 2. To find out manual dexterity point score and descriptive category according to age group

MATERIALS & METHODS : It was a cross–sectional analytical study conducted i schools of Pimpri–Chinchwad area. This study included 248 males and 268 females which were assessed for making dots in circle, transferring pennies, sorting cards, stringing blocks and  placing pegs in peg boards.

RESULT: The total mean point score of manual dexterity in females is 27.73 and in males is 27.96.

 CONCLUSION : The study concludes that, male and female children showed similar performance on fine  motor point score. also maximum  numbers of children from all the age groups were in average category