MARKS COMPARISON: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MARKS DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENT OF MATRICULATION IN MULTAN DISTRICT

Abstract

There is an important consideration that males and females have some psychological differences. They differ in their thinking, communication and behavior. So, these differences must have marked themselves in an academic point of view. The purpose of this study was to compare the academic performances among the male and female students. This study utilized the gender-wise marks and the divisions of the passed students who had appeared in the annual matriculation examination 2014 under the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE), Multan. We are also concerned with finding the probabilities of passing academic divisions for the students and the association between the gender and the academic performances. Equality of the means of the marks was also tested in this study. The study revealed that the mean marks were significantly different for boys and girls at matriculation level and the girls seem to perform academically better than boys.