The line graph shows the different average points for male and female students in SAT math tests between 1992 and 2000 in a certain school. Overall, although boys had higher grades in the exam throughout the period, girls’s scores seemed to be catching up and rose at faster pace.
In 1992, boys had an average score of 500 points, which experienced a rapid increase to 510 in 1993. Although, the next year witnessed a slight drop in scores, they started rising steadily again after 1994 and reached somewhere around 536 points in 1998. Between 1998 and 2000, male student’s SAT scored remained constant at 536 points.
Female students, on the other hand, started at much lower average score of 460 points in 1992. However, their results steadily rose to over 490 points in 1995. There was a sharper growth of 20 points per year in girl’s average SAT scores between 1995 and 1996. Following this, a slower increase of 4 points per year was seen in girl’s grades in the last five years of the period.