Overall, the study found out that there were more over age boys (50.2 per cent) than girls (49.4 per cent) in Standard Two. “It is observable that girls performed better than boys with 72.5 per cent of girls reaching the 50 per cent benchmark,” the study says. The finding that puts girls ahead of boys is different from last year’s NASMLA Class 3 study which showed that boys performed better than girls in mathematics. However, in special needs education schools, boys performed better than girls in all the mathematical operations as well as in number patterns. “This indicates that private schools performed better than public schools in early grade mathematics,” the study notes.

Source: Standard Digital May 06, 2017 08:03 UTC