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* Girls outscore boys in almost every subject - except maths - at almost every stage of education
* Research suggests that girls’ command of written language is the most important factor in their higher test scores
* Subject choice reflects gender. In last year’s A-levels, more than 23,500 boys took physics, compared with about 7,000 girls
* But more than 55,000 girls took English, compared with 23,000 boys
* Boys and girls answer questions in different ways: girls set things in context, boys consider questions in isolation
* Boys seem happier with multiple-choice. Some researchers believe it’s because there’s an element of risk
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