Authors have diverged dramatically in their precise definitions beyond these general commonalities: Peter Meusburger estimates that over a hundred different definitions can be found in the literature, typically elaborating on the context (field, organization, environment etc.) which determines the originality and/or appropriateness of the created object, and the processes through which it came about. As an illustration, one definition given by Dr. E. Paul Torrence in the context of assessing an individual's creative ability, described it as "a process of becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on; identifying the difficulty; searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating hypotheses about the deficiencies: testing and retesting these hypotheses and possibly modifying and retesting them; and finally communicating the results. Creativity in general is usually distinguish news in particular, where the stress is on implementation. For example, Teresa Ambabile and Pratt (2016) define creativity as production of novel and useful ideas and innovation as implementation of creative ideas, while the OECD and EURO state that "Innovation is more than a new idea or an invention. An innovation requires implementation, either by being put into active use or by being made available for use by other parties, firms, individuals or Organization. There is also an emotional creativity which is described as a pattern of cognitive abilities and personality traits related to originality and appropriateness in emotional experience and General mental ability is use to test the ability of a student to comprehend and interpret verbal information, perceive and process numbers and information given in tabular or graphical format, think laterally and make logical connections between different concepts. In this context the main purpose of the study was to examine the creativity and general mental ability among secondary school students. The study also aimed to find out the correlation between variable carried on students of 8th Standard in schools of Mysore city. The sample of the study consisted of 100 male and female students and data was collected by using tools, viz, RPM(Ravens standards progressive matrices) Used to measure the level of general mental ability of the students Creativity test to measure the level of creativity among secondary school students. The result shown that Majority (53%) of Secondary school student possess, moderate level of creativity. It is also seen that only 22% and 25% of the Secondary school students possessing low and high level of creativity respectively. Majority (52%) of secondary school students possess, moderate level of General mental ability and it is also seen that only 23% and 25% of the secondary schools possessing low and high level of General mental ability respectively.There is a significant difference between the creativity of male and female secondary school students There is a significant difference between the general mental ability of male and female secondary school students. There is a positive insignificant relationship between the creativity and general mental ability of secondary school students.

Creativity, General mental ability, t-test, descriptive survey method percentage analysis.