Sentences with phrase «boys than girls reaching»

The difference in achievement by gender is startling, with roughly a fifth fewer boys than girls reaching the end of Key Stage 4 with a good set of GCSEs in state schools.

Not exact matches

Fewer than 10 percent of 11 - to 14 - year - olds and fewer than 2 percent of girl softball players reached the 60 minute physical exercise mark (compared to 32 % of the boys);

Last year, nearly 46 per cent of girls gained five or more passes at the top grades (A to C) in the GCSE examinations taken at 16, while fewer than 37 per cent of boys reached the same standard.

Male adults responded more frequently to infant boys than infant girls, but the difference did not reach statistical significance.

One girl ~ whenever receiving anything less than a 90 percent on her tests ~ would crawl up under her desk in a ball and cry for an hour until I could coax her out (boy ~ I was happy to get a C in geometrynot the best student when I reached high school).

Girls are roughly 25 percent more likely to get distracted while eating, drinking or reaching for something in the car than boys, but it is a common distraction for all teen drivers.

On the contrary, in relation to sex differences, results showed that boys reached higher mean scores than girls only in positive affect (t (146) = 2.25, p = 0.026)(Table 2).