... they are more successful than boys at the more traditional boy's subjects (design, technology and chemistry). A Higher proportion of females stay on at 6th form, further education and university, female school leavers are now more likely to get three or more A level passes and more females get accepted to university. The biological factors suggest that there is a difference in the level of innate ability between males and females, researchers have looked for evidence that girls have lower innate intelligence than girls so much of the evidence found for innate intelligence may be biased and invalid. Harvey Goldstein points out that on average girls did better in the 11+ test, and some LEA's adjusted girls pass rates to make sure that the grammar schools were not all girls. Goldstein points out that the idea of testing intelligence is discredited and furthermore there are many processes that can account ...

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