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. Students passing high school competency exams, by subject and gender, 2010-2011

The given bar chart illustrates the distinction in the percentage of female and male students passing seven core subjects in their high school between 2010 and 2011. At the first glance, it is noticeable that there was
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for both genders in Physics, History, Foreign Languages ( including French, German and Spanish) and Mathematics as well.
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that, the feminine students had always finished the test better than the masculine,
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geography was an exception.
Initially
, the figures for both genders in Foreign Languages and Mathematics were
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, with merely 1
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higher for the feminine.
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, the number of Physics and History tests passed by girls was nearly 2 and 2.5
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higher than that of boys, with 36,7 and 25.6
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respectively.
On the other hand
, for chemistry, girls had a significantly higher pass
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, over 14% more the feminine achieving acceptable score in Computer Science, with a pass
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of 56.3 shared.
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, Geography was the only subject where males did much greater than females, with a pass
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of 30,4% which was considerably 10% higher than the feminine.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words rate with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "percentage" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Competency exams
  • High school
  • Pass rate
  • Disparity
  • Performance gap
  • Subject-specific analysis
  • Year-to-year progression
  • Regression
  • Overall trends
  • Significant
  • Notably wide/narrow
  • Conclusion
  • Observations
  • Consistencies
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