Are exam results gender related?
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Exam Results Aim Are exam results gender related? Introduction This coursework aims to determine if exam results are independent of gender. There may be many reasons as to why one sex may perform better in exams than the other. However why one sex may perform better than another is not an aim of this coursework, only to determine which sex, if any. Should one sex be found achieve better grades in exams, various possible reasons will be discussed. However, the question "Why?" is only a secondary aim of this coursework; as simply put, this is Maths, not Sociology. Hypothesis There have been many articles in the media that girls do better in exams than boys and my own experience agrees with this statement. I think girls are generally better at all subjects, and excel at subjects such as art, languages and English, but perform slightly less well in subjects such as science, maths and...

