The pie charts give information about the proportions of boys and girls of a school who achieved high grades in respective courses.
The bar charts compare the percentages of high achievers scoring in five subjects of male and female students in the years 1996 and 2000.
It is obvious that schoolgirls excel in languages and arts,
whereas
schoolboys are good at humanities and science, albeit with some fluctuations over the period shown.
In 1996, approximately 22% of male students scored high grades in humanities, which doubled the figure after 4 years, at around 44%. The trend was the same for arts, rising from 9% to 11%. By contrast
, although
about 33% and 30 of schoolboys achieved high scores in science and maths at first,
it reduced to 18% and 17% respectively during the period, which, however
, still outnumbered that of their female counterparts. The figure remained the same for male students studying languages
In 2000. the proportions of girls scoring high in science and maths witnessed an increase to varying degrees, rising to 11% and 15% each. By contrast
, there were significant decreases in the proportions of scoring high in languages, arts and humanities, declining from 45%, 30%, and 33% to 30%, 25% and 25%, respectively.Submitted by 76805977 on
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