I think that girls must do better in A levels than boys because A levels are only taken by girls. I draw this conclusion based on the photographs selected by newspaper editors to illustrate their stories on the subject. If you look at the websites of The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Evening Standard and The Yorkshire Post you will see that -- astonishingly -- *all* of them have led with photos of pretty girls hugging each other.

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i think some males may take offence to this statement but u have to understand that this stands for MAJORITY of males therefore not ALL males underachieve. historically boys had outperformed girls, however eithin only three generation this has changed and now girls outperform boys at all levels.
since 1980's girls have overtaken boys on educatyion and the gap is getting wider. males are noe approximately seven years behind females in attainement by the end of secondary school.
this pattern occurs across ethnicities and is amplified by class, with working-class boys the group most likely to underachieve. this raisesa distinct set of sociological questions, the most fundamental of which is why girls have achieved this improvement!!??

there is alot of evidence suggesting that girls do better than boys acedemically...but that does not mean every boy will fail.
its just a fact that males have to deal with and maybe..who knows..in a few decades boys could be achieving higher than girls. none of this means that one gender is superior than the other!!!

hope that information helped!
zahra