The bar chart presents data on the percentage of high school students who successfully passed their competency exams in terms of subject and gender, for the academic year from 2010 to 2011.
Overall, gender gaps were present in performance across different subjects, with girls outperforming boys in most disciplines.
Students of both sexes performed best in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Foreign Languages, including French, German and Spanish. The number of boys passing Mathematics and Foreign Languages (48.4% and 46.8% respectively) was roughly the same as the number of girls managing to finish these tests (49.2% and 47.4% respectively). In other subjects, however, there were some significant differences.
Girls achieved by far their best results in Computer Science compared to others, with a pass rate of 56.3%, which was considerably around 14% higher than the boys. The difference was even greater marked in Chemistry, where over 16% more girls passed. The only subject where boys’ results were better than girls was Geography where they achieved a pass rate of 30.4%, which was 10% higher than that the result for girls.
