UK: A-level results 2017: Boys beat girls to top grades for first time in 17 years amid tougher exams.

HeForeverBleeds · 2017-08-17T10:43:33+00:00

Clear sexism and misogyny. We must implement campaigns to help improve conditions for female students immediately /s

Mode1961 · 2017-08-17T12:07:43+00:00

I am assuming that boys got emailed the answers via www.thepatriarchy.com /s

Zepherite · 2017-08-17T15:05:35+00:00

The really good thing about this is that it gives us a concrete data point.

Until now, the decline in boys' educational performance has been treated as a mystery and something no one had any idea how to reverse. If the reforms are really what's helped boys do better, then the schools, politicians and other vested interests can't pretend any more that there is no template for improving boys' performance.

If there's a willingness to actually analyze what's going on and respond in good will, then it's even possible they could look at the 'before' and 'after' and try to design a system that's intelligent enough to work for all learners and give them a chance to demonstrate what they can do.

Sadly, I expect what will actually happen is a well-orchestrated backlash by feminists.

oggyb · 2017-08-17T12:30:17+00:00

"the dramatic reversal of fortunes..." er no. Almost within error margins.

Rethgil · 2017-08-17T20:34:19+00:00

And notice how after boys doing better than girls just ONCE in 17 years we suddenly face a rash of newspaper and news articles from female journalists acting like its instantly the worlds most serious problem right now? Boys have lost out for nearly two decades and they've been silent. Girls do worse ONCE and suddenly they're acting like its Armageddon for women.

TheExplodingKitten · 2017-08-17T19:14:28+00:00

And now the media are framing this as a huge 'gender gap', the difference is nothing compared to the gap between girls and boys at GCSEs.

yturijea · 2017-08-17T21:11:01+00:00

Does it even matter that boys or girl perform better at A-level? so you learned a lot about some "set" data you can retell at some exam.

I always thought that Highschool was a joke. Anyone can get into engineering no matter the grade and often people rise in grades from highschool to university in those fields. (might be because the subject actually makes sense to study?)

Think it has been proven that often average scoring university students often perform better in work life than the top students. Will have to check that through.

I do not see this specific statistic to be of any relevance to equality and from the charts it seems that they are still within some error margin.

ThePigmanAgain · 2017-08-17T23:22:10+00:00

I predict much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the feminists.

2017-08-17T17:52:44+00:00

Good.

ZimbaZumba · 2017-08-18T04:04:17+00:00

More girls still got top grades. The increase in boys is the % of them getting top grades. There are still far more girls taking A levels in the first place.

Imnotmrabut · 2017-08-17T11:55:12+00:00

So yet again we see evidence of dimorphism in education.

The sooner we return to sex segregated education in the UK below age 18 .... The Better.

kartu3 · 2017-08-17T10:52:51+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/6u8tup/alevel_results_day_2017_students_find_out_grades/

Title	UK: A-level results 2017: Boys beat girls to top grades for first time in 17 years amid tougher exams.
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Date	August 17, 2017 10:21 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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