The charts below show the percentages of male and female students getting top grades in 1960 and 2000

The given column graphs compare the proportion of boys and girls getting top grades in
five subjects, which are science, arts, mathg languages and humanities, in rsob ;'nd 2ooo.
It is clp.ar from the graph that girls scored higher in Arts and languages, whereas boys
scored higher in science and math in the given years.

In 1950, slightly over 30% boys scored good grades in science and maths, whereas in
languages and humanities the high scorers were 20/o each. only one in ten scored high
in Arts. In contrast, girls did much better in languages, Arts and humanities, with as%,
32% and 307o scoring high in these subjects respectively. only r0/o girls scored high in
science and the least (5 ft) scored high in maths.
In 200O among boys, the percentage of top scorers in arts and humanities almost
doubled where as that in science and math became approximately half as compared to
the figures of 1960. The percentage of top scorers i.r lu.,gr"g"i remained th"
Among girlg however, "u-". the percentage of top scorers in arts, languages and huma.ities
decreased moderately, whereas that in science and maths remained the same.

overall, it is surprising to see that boys scored better than girls in humanities in the year
2000.