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 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 illustrates the proportion of
students
who scored over their passing marks in their high school competency examinations, which are categorised into
subject
and gender during the duration of 2010 to 2011. Generally, female
students
outperformed
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male
students
in all of the subjects except for
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geography
.
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can be seen that computer science was the
highest scoring
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subject
for
girls
, with a passing
rate
of more than 50%, and it is the only
subject
with a percentage greater than half. The passing
rate
for most subjects
are
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typically greater than 30% for both
girls
and boys. Male
students
performed extremely
poor
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for
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Chemistry though, with just a passing
rate
of 14.1%.
On the other hand
, female
students
did relatively better, with a percentage of 30.2. The passing
rate
for Geography is lowest
within
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the
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girls
, with only 20.1% but 30.4% for guys. Foreign Language, Mathematics, History and Physics are the four subjects that have nearly
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equal proportion of
students
that passed for both guys and
girls
. They have a difference of lesser than 3% for each
subject
.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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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