<p>Exactly, boysx3.</p>
<p>The proof is in the AP grade!</p>
<p>Extra credit would be ok (and more fair) if it reflected some actual knowledge of the subject, or extra work done, not a fluffy bit of “work.”</p>
<p>The literature I’ve read on the subject says that it’s mainly because girls tend to leave questions blank when they don’t know how to answer.</p>
<p>I’m just gonna say it now: I refuse to accept that this means the tests are biased towards men any more than that academic grading is biased towards women. The only genuine biases I can see in standardized testing are by class and first language.</p>
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<p>There are more men in STEM than women (except in biology), but it seems that men also go for stereotypically “easy” majors at a pretty high rate. </p>
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<p>Hear that, everyone? Boys are the being smartest ones! </p>
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<p>To play the devil’s advocate…you could argue that learning to follow stupid rules is a good job skill, at least when you’re starting out and aren’t in charge of anything.</p>
<p>I would say the primary reason is test anxiety. This may or may not be due to the fact that girls generally have a less competitive mindset than guys.</p>
<p>That being said though, the SAT’s do not measure intelligence anyway, so I would not arrive at the conclusion that girls are less intelligent or less prepared for college than guys are. Guys just manage competitive anxiety better IMO, which means we are able to free our minds and become more resourceful during these stressful exams.</p>
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<p>Out of 2 million test takers a year? Yes, with a very high confidence level 4 points is enough to say that guys score higher on the verbal section than girls. </p>
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<p>It’s what the topic is about. If you don’t care about what the topic is about why post in it? And no one (that you should listen to) is saying that you should assume that guys will score higher than girls because guys on average score higher.</p>
<p>I just noticed that my son’s school had 25 National Merit Semifinalists this year - 21 boys, 4 girls. This seems to be staggeringly lopsided.</p>
<p>We had a thread awhile back about genders of valedictorians/top 10 and the vast majority of people said most of the top 10 students in their class were girls.</p>
<p>I’m a girl and while I would guess that girls have higher GPAs, but boys are in more APs.
I’d say the average guy at my school is smarter than the average girl.</p>
<p>Doesn’t the GPA trend persist throughout most universities (especially) though, where fluff factors are perhaps much less influential to the final grade than in HS? I wonder what happens when you compare the GPAs within medium difficulty majors. Not science and engineering, but things like economics or political science (social sciences I guess) which usually have a workload not too far off from sciences (because of all the reading and writing intensive courses. Natural sciences are known for difficult exams that warrant curves, not high homework and reading loads. You get plenty of time to prep for the exam, but it’s just hard regardless. Engineering is known for both difficult exams and a high workload, so it’s somewhat of an extreme, but usually engineering course grades are higher than pure science courses, because grades aren’t purely reliant upon exams/quizzes.), but award higher grades (usually because they have many soft graders or write regurgitation type exams), usually slightly below or around the university mean (sciences are usually a couple of tenths or more below it).</p>
<p>That’s true bernie, that’s something to consider.
I don’t think there are enough female engineer majors or male nursing majors to make either comparison accurate enough, but bio and certain business majors have pretty equal percentages of men and women. If males do excel in those majors, then the correlation between SAT scores and college grades would make sense.</p>
<p>If they do excel, you could make the conclusion that schools are bias towards girls, or simply don’t cater to boys’ needs enough. You could also argue that they become more mature, which some people think is what’s holding boys back in doing as well in schools.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can’t find anything on average GPA’s for male and female bio/business majors.</p>
<p>My apologies if this has been already posted. This table clearly shows that the mean SAT scores by gender over the last 30yrs. Refer to page 3, interesting to see the differences.
My take on it is that a lot of girls haven’t realized how important it is to get high test scores and their test scores start going up when they realize it.</p>
<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/TotalGroup-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/TotalGroup-2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>Nope, getting high grades does not correlate directly with SAT scores. Getting higher grades relates to sucking up to teachers, getting higher SAT scores relates to answering questions accurately and quickly.</p>
<p>I do agree that girls are pushed more to go to college, and perhaps really don’t belong there.</p>
<p>I scored higher on the SAT (and my ACT equivalent score is higher than her actual score) than the #1 girl in our class, she’s 2 or 3 overall. Yet I am ranked 43rd. (325+ in class) I just think guys are better test takers. We have more common sense and logic that doesn’t necessarily mean a high GPA in class.</p>
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<p>If we look at the SAT mean scores over the years, the girls’ scores for CR and writing are similar to boys. What’s different is math and a lot of parents and test-preparation experts agree that math score can be improved by practice, but not CR. That proves the point that girls need to practice math portion of SAT. </p>
<p>It is a shame to look down on 50% of the population. No particular gender/race/ethnicity is inherently better or worse than the others. It is what we do with our brain/time that determines how we do in life.</p>
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<p>Of course I am. From my experience, guys do have more common sense than girls. We’re more street smart. We are more logical.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s true at all. Not only is that overly generalizing, but I’ve seen a ton of instances that leaves me thinking, “Really guys???”</p>
<p>I don’t think the sat really tests common sense. I (admittedly) don’t have much common sense, yet I have the highest sat score at my school. I’m a girl, by the way. That’s just my experience, but it kind of annoys me how much everyone is generalizing on here…</p>
<p>guys think logically ( adventage on math and writing ), girls think emotionally ( advantage on reading )</p>
<p>2 to 1 adventage</p>