Are girls brighter than boys?
Recently CBSE class XII results are out & girls as usual have outshine the boys in pass percentage. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1544008.cms
However if we look at the results deeper we see that of all students appearing in exams only 40% of students were girls rather than near 50-50 ratio.
Can this ratio have any impact on pass percentage?
I believe that this ratio tells some story. This ratio can be because of socio-economic structure of society we live in. It can be the filtering these exams do by marking students as pass-fail happens much earlier for girls. For girls if they are not good in studies then they are dropped out much earlier than boys. As a results the girls who appear for these exams are are brigther sub-set of all girls.
This I believe is the real reason for better pass percentage for them.
Naturally this raises a question whether girls are more smarter than boys. TOI recently conducted a poll to validate this. & guess what 60% of people do believe that it is true.
However if we look at the results deeper we see that of all students appearing in exams only 40% of students were girls rather than near 50-50 ratio.
Can this ratio have any impact on pass percentage?
I believe that this ratio tells some story. This ratio can be because of socio-economic structure of society we live in. It can be the filtering these exams do by marking students as pass-fail happens much earlier for girls. For girls if they are not good in studies then they are dropped out much earlier than boys. As a results the girls who appear for these exams are are brigther sub-set of all girls.
This I believe is the real reason for better pass percentage for them.
posted by Pawan Agarwal at 10:25 AM
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