The line graph compares the average SAT math scores achieved by female and male students between 1992 to 2000. Overall, while the figure for male students almost always increased, the average scores by female students experienced a significant rise through years. In addition, male’s average scores was higher than that in female over the period.
Starting points at 500, male’s first scores was higher than that in female of 140 points in 1992. The average scores of male climbed to 510 points in 1993 before declining slightly to 505 points in 1994. After a modest fluctuation in the first 3 years, the figure for males started recovering in the next period. From 1994 to the first few months of 1997 seen a sharp increase in the average male’s scores before reaching its peak of 535 points between 1998 and 1999. The figure remained unchanged in the last three years of the period.
Female’ scores started at 460 points in 1992. A noticeably growth to around 490 was recorded in the figure for female in 1995. The average female’s scores kept increasing dramatically of 15 points between 1995 and 1996. After that, the average scores of female underwent a gradual climb and reached its peak of around 530 points at the end of the period.