The bar chart presents the percentage of students who successfully passed their high school competency examinations, categorized by subject and gender during the academic year 2010-2011.
Overall, the data indicates a noticeable variation in pass rates across different subjects and between genders, with certain subjects exhibiting a more balanced performance among male and female students.
In the realm of Physics, female students achieved a slightly higher success rate of 36.7% compared to their male counterparts at 34.6%. The disparity is more pronounced in Chemistry, where 30.2% of girls passed versus a mere 14.1% of boys, marking Chemistry as the subject with the lowest overall success for males. In contrast, Geography records a pass rate of 20.1% for female students, which is lower than the 30.4% recorded by boys, thus highlighting a notable gender divide in this subject.
Conversely, Mathematics and Computer Science demonstrate a much more competitive landscape, with female students achieving 49.2% and 56.3% pass rates respectively, outpacing their male peers who scored 48.4% in Mathematics and 42.1% in Computer Science. Notably, the highest overall pass rate across all subjects is recorded in Computer Science, with a total of 98.4% of students successfully passing. Similarly, the discipline of Foreign Languages shows nearly equal success rates, with 47.4% for girls and 46.8% for boys, illustrating a more balanced performance. Overall, these figures underscore significant disparities in achievement based on gender across various subjects.