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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 charts show the changes in the percentages of
boys
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 and
girls
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 gaining impressive grades in different
subjects
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 in 1996 and 2000. Humanities saw the biggest increase in the
proportion
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 of high-achieving
boys
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, with the figure nearly doubling to 43% or so.
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 increased significantly to 21% and the figure for
girls
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 decreased slightly to 25%. Languages were another course which experienced a drop in the percentage of high-achieving
girls
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, down to 31%, and the
proportion
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 of high-achievers for
boys
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 remained unchanged at about 21% in
this
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 course. There were similar patterns in the performance in science and maths for both genders. Around
one third
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 of
boys
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 gained satisfying grades in these science courses
in
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1996-higher than the figures for other
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subjects-but
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subjects
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 only around 18% and 17% reached
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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 increased to 11% and 15% respectively,
although
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 these figures were still far lower than those for the other three
subjects
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.
Overall
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, there were clear gender differences in all these five
subjects
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: science
subjects
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 saw 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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. In 2000,
boys
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 outperformed
girls
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 in every subject except the arts.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words boys, girls, subjects, 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 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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