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Educational background of the respondent plays the crucial role in the comprehension of a test instructions, purpose and test material and consequenty on the totality of the responses. Subsequently it affects the validity of test. The purpose or present student is attempting to explore differences between situational measures and Liker-Type scale in the population with low educational background (i.e. below 10th standard). In the present student investigator has developed the test to measure emotional intelligence. Test comprises of two parts. The first part (EQ-A) consists of situations pertaining to general life situations. Along with that, five options were provided to respond.  The second part (EQ-B) of the test consists of 15 statements based on Likert-type Scale. The test was standardized on a sample of 299 people. To study the deference between two parts, sample of 300 farmers was collected from different regions of Maharashtra state of India. Pearson's product momnet correlations indicates that EQ-A and EQ-B (r=.31, P<.01) are tapping different aspects of EQ. The correlation of EQ-A with total EQ (r=.85, P<.01) and EQ-B with total EQ (r=.78, P<.01) are expected to be high since they are part of the whole correlation; whereas, part - (situational measures) has higher correlation than part-B (Likert type scale).