UK: GCSE results 2013: girls stretch to record lead over boys

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:20

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Government was told to commission a large-scale study into the underachievement of boys after GCSE results showed that girls were increasingly likely to secure top grades.

According to figures, some 24.8 per cent of exams sat by girls were graded A* or A, compared with just 17.6 per cent of those taken by boys.

The gulf – 7.2 percentage points – was larger than at any other time since the introduction of GCSEs in the late 80s.

Data also showed that 72.3 per cent of exams sat by girls were graded C or better, compared with just 63.7 per cent of boys’ test papers.

This was the biggest disparity in a decade.'

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