In present times, the pressures are mounting up in every individual’s life. It is need not to be mentioned that whether education, employment, health and other pursuits of life. Every individual has to go through rough patches at some point of time. It may lead to loss of self-awareness as the pressures keep building up within. When the pressures are at peak, there may be cognitive fluctuations that may delink creative thinking of young adolescents. The purpose of the present study is to find self-awareness and creative thinking in different schools from different boards as operating systems of those schools varies. 10th students of CBSE and ICSE schools selected, the data were collected and analyzed. The data were and interpreted using descriptive and parametric statistics. Interestingly, both the students do not exhibit any difference in self-awareness irrespective of differences in operations. But gender differences observed in terms of self-awareness as well as creative thinking. These are presented in the following section systematically.