The given bar chart compares and contrasts data on the changes in the proportion of students who managed to finish their high school competency exams, by subject and gender, in the period between 2010 and 2011.
In general, during the time from 2010 to 2011, girls performed better in most subjects in competency exams than boys.
As can be seen, students of both sexes performed best in some subjects including Foreign Languages,Mathematics, and Computer Science. The number of boys passing Foreign Languages and Mathematics was the same as that of girls managing to finish these tests.
In other subjects, however, there were some significant differences. The percentage of girls passing Computer Science was higher than that of boys, at 56.3% and 42.1% respectively. The difference was greater in Chemistry, where 16% more girls passed in comparison with boys. Surprisingly, a striking feature is that Geography was the only subject in which boys’ results were better than girls, at 30.4% and 20.1% respectively.
