The charts below show the percentages of male and female students getting top grades in 1960 and 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the percentages of male and female students getting top 

grades in 1960 and 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the 

main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The aforementioned two line graphs depict the proportion of
marks
obtained by both
girls
and
boys
in 1960 and 2000. At a glance, it is
vivid
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clear
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that the highest number of top grades was obtained by
boys
in 2000, standing at below half and the same percentage of
girls
got
highest
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the highest
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marks
in
Arts
in the year 1960.
Boys
have a tendency
of getting
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to get
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higher grades in math and science
whereas
girls
pupils follow the trend of scoring
more
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higher
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on
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in
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languages and
arts
. In 1960, about 22% of male students got top grades compared to
girls
.
However
, the proportion of
boys
having higher
marks
dramatically declined in 2000, standing at 19%. Only a few
percentages
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per cent
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of
girls
had breakbound and had the top score. From 1960 to 2000,
boys
’ top term in math reduced by 18%.
On the other hand
, approximately 30% of females obtained
the
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higher score in the
arts
in both years, which is one-fourth higher than
boys
’ tendency
of getting
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to get
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higher
marks
in 1960.
Number
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A number
The number
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of people getting
highest
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the highest
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marks
remained unchanged from 1960 to 2000 for male students and some of
females
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the females
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in languages dropped by 12%.
Overall
,
girls
should
practice
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practise
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more and more
for getting
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to get
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higher
marks
in maths and
boys
should
keep
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pay
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more attention
studying
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to studying
show examples
Arts
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words marks, girls, boys, arts with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "stand" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fifth paragraph.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • percentages
  • top grades
  • achievement
  • gender disparity
  • educational trends
  • academic performance
  • comparison
  • decade
  • educational policy
  • societal expectations
  • improvement
  • educational attainment
  • graduates
  • academic excellence
  • statistics
  • educational landscape
  • benchmark
  • parity
  • gender roles
  • historical data
  • performance indicators
  • educational improvements
  • longitudinal study
  • scholastic achievement
  • gender gap
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