The chart shows the percentage of women and men in one Asian country who passed when they took their driving test between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The tables illustrate the passed rate of the driving tests in one Asian country between two genders, male and female when both genders sit the test in the time interval from 1980 to 2010.

Overall

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, the points qualified for passing in the category of the female examinee were much higher than that of the male examinee but there was a slight difference between the two genders in

this

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period of thirty years.

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, in 1980, female test takers scored almost double male test takers, 48 per

cent

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compared to 28 per

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, respectively.

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, in 1990, the female

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outscored the male by just slightly over the number of 10 per

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points, starting approximately at 50% for the female and at under 40% for the male.

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, since 2000

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chart shows a downward trend in female driver's percentage of driving tests passed and an equal in the male driver's percentage of driving tests passed through the ten-years period starting from the year 2000 to 2010.

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, for females, the rate was going short by around 5 per

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, which ranges from roughly 70th percentile to over 65th percentile. For males, the rate in these two columns stayed exactly the same at 49 per

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in the interval of ten years.