Girls were handed more than 166,000 top grades than boys in their GCSEs this year, down from a lead of 207,000 last year
, there was a 6.8 per cent difference between boys and girls – almost exactly the same as last year but down 2 per cent compared to 2019.
“So the already big gap in performance between genders was increased even further by the use of teacher assessments.” However, during the two years of teacher assessment during the pandemic, girls stormed even further ahead, overtaking boysStudies have shown that girls also tend to do better than boys in coursework, while male students generally perform better inA 20-year trend of girls outperforming boys in their maths GCSE was reversed in 2009 when the coursework element was dropped, allowing boys to surge ahead for the first time.
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