Girls recorded a higher pass rate than boys in this year’s HSC and equivalent examinations, with a gap of 8.56 percentage points.
The pass rate among female students stood at 56.31%, compared with 47.75% among male students, according to the results published on Saturday.
Of the 633,149 female candidates who sat for the examinations, 356,528 passed. Among the 607,649 male candidates, 290,157 passed.
However, boys outnumbered girls among GPA-5 achievers. A total of 20,363 male students secured the highest grade, compared with 19,721 female students.
