The bar chart below shows the percentage of students who passed their high school competency exams, by subject and gender, during the period 2010-2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph shows the percentages of

boys

and

girls

who were successful in their high school competency exams in the period from 2010 to 2011, by subject.

Overall

, students of both sexes performed best in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Foreign Languages, including French, German and Spanish. Results for

boys

and

girls

were roughly equivalent the same in Computer Science and Mathematics. In other subjects,

however

, there were some significant differences.

Girls

achieved by far their best results in Computer Science, with a pass rate of 56.3%, which was considerably around 14% higher than the

boys

. The difference was even more marked in Chemistry, where over 16% more

girls

passed. The single subject where

boys

’ results were better than

girls

was Geography where they achieved a pass rate of 30.4%, which was 10% higher than

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girls

performed better in most subjects in the competency exams than

boys

.