The bar charts compare the number of students, distinguished by subject and gender, who succeeded in the competency exams in the 2010 to 2011 period.
Overall, girls seemed to be more prominent in most subjects and both genders showed greater performance in computer science, mathematics, and foreign languages.
The gender gap appeared most clearly in terms of computer science and chemistry, with the disparity between female and male students at approximately 15% in both subjects (girls did better). Conversely, boys’ performance in geography was greater (with 30.4% of them passed the exam), 10.3% higher than that of females. The number of boys and girls who succeeded in foreign languages and mathematics were noticeably higher than in other subjects, except for computer science, which had 56% of female students and 42,1% of males who passed the exam. The percentages of the two mentioned subjects were nearly the same. While foreign languages reported 47.4% of girls and 46.8% of boys, mathematics was slightly higher, with 49.4% of females and 48.4% of males. Similarly, physics also showed the same pattern, but lower in the percentages between girls and boys (36.7% and 34.6% respectively). In term of history, the number of boys who passed this subject’s exam was marginally lower than that of girls (22.9% and 25.6%).