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The charts give information about the proportions of boys and girls of a school who achieved high grades (A or B +) in respective courses. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts give information about the proportions of boys and girls of a school who achieved high grades (A or B +) in respective courses. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The bar graph illustrates the changes in the percentages of
boys
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 and
girls
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 gaining impressive grades in five different subjects in 1996 and 2000.
Overall
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, there were distinct gender differences across these five disciplines: science underwent an improvement in the performance of
girls
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,
while
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 the arts and humanities had a higher
proportion
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 of high-performing
boys
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. The percentage of high-achieving
boys
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 was generally higher than that of
girls
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 in 2000. Humanities saw the most considerable increase in the
proportion
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 of high-achieving
boys
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, becoming the top-performing course, with the figure nearly doubling to 45% in 2000.
By comparison
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, the figure for
girls
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 dropped by 8% to 25%. Similar changes happened to the arts, in which the percentage of
boys
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 who gained high scores rose significantly to 22%, and the figure for
girls
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 slightly declined to 25%. Languages were another area which experienced a drop in the percentage of high-achieving
girls
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, down to 31%,
while
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 the
proportion
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 of high-achievers for
boys
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 remained unchanged at about 21%. There were contrasting patterns in the performance of science and maths for both genders. Around one-third of the
boys
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 obtained satisfying grades in these science courses in 1996, higher than the figures for other subjects.
However
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, only around 18% and 17% reached
this
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 level in 2000.
In contrast
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, the
proportion
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 of high-achieving
girls
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 in these two courses climbed to 11% and 15% respectively,
although
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 these figures were still far lower than those for the other three areas.
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words boys, girls, proportion with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 5 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "changes" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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