The bar chart below shows the percentage of students who passed their high school competency exams, by subject and gender, during the period 2010-2011.*includes French, German and Spanish

Given is the bar chart which illustrates the percentage of male and female students who passed high school competency examinations in seven different subjects from 2010 to 2011.

In general, both genders did very well in the courses of computer science, mathematics and foreign languages. There were significant differences in chemistry and geography as girls outperformed in the former while boys did better in the latter.

Firstly, the statistics of computer science, foreign languages and math are higher than 42% in both genders, whereas the percentages of the rest subjects are lower than 37. The passing rates of both genders in math and foreign languages have fairly identical figures as they are 46 to 47 in foreign languages and 48 to 49 in math.

Secondly, there was a 15 percent difference between both genders in Chemistry; 30% in girls and 14% in boys. In geography, it can be seen a huge difference in female and male students as 30% of male passed, compared to only 20% in female population.

To sup up, female students have better performances in overall subjects than the opposite sex.

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No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
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No. of Sentences: 8 10
No. of Words: 184 200
No. of Characters: 892 1000
No. of Different Words: 105 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.683 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.848 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.77 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 67 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 54 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 35 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.339 7.5
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Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.426 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.809 0.50
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