Girls did better than boys in Junior Cert
State Examinations Commission comparisons between results achieved by both sexes show a higher proportion of girls got honours grades (A, B or C) in all higher level subjects except for material technology, metalwork and environmental and social studies.
Among the most popular subjects, English showed one of the biggest gaps, as only 71% of boys who took the higher level exam got an honour, compared to more than 82% of female students. A difference of almost 10% is evident in Irish, where 82.7% of girls and 73.8% of boys got a higher level honours grade, while a slightly smaller gap exists for higher level French.
