This study is generally aimed at exploring, analysing, understanding and describing the picture of gifted intelligent students’ competence. In Semarang, gifted intelligent students can be found in many schools with regular class as well as schools providing acceleration class. Several researches have proven that gifted intelligent students have to deal with a problem in behaving properly to social context. Subject in this study is gifted intelligent student. This research applied purposive sampling, a sampling technique in non probability sampling based on the characterictics owned by the subjects. The characterictic of the subject in this research is gifted intelligence with IQ 130 and above. Method of data collecting used was interview, as the essence of a qualitative research which focuses on the understanding of a symptom. Interview technique employed in this research was direct interview technique, a direct communication between the interviewer and the interviewee. The result of the research shows that gifted intelligent students are relatively able to position themselves according to social context.

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