2025 CBSE boards: Why girls consistently outperform boys in board exams

Year after year, girls outperform boys in board exams—and not just in India.

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00:00like previous many years girls outperformed boys in this year's CBSE exams the same was

00:10true in the class 10 results of the ICSE board as well so I found this trend to be very consistent

00:15over the past few years and I've always asked myself why why does this happen so I did some

00:20research and found some really startling facts I will tell you all about it in this video I'm

00:24Manish Adhikari and you're watching first things fast it's not just academics for girls outperform

00:29boys across the board and globally women lead in unexpected places they live longer save more

00:35drive safer and are less likely to commit crimes now studies also show women have stronger immune

00:41systems better credit scores and higher emotional intelligence that's a given isn't it they vote

00:48more they pollute less and even deliver better investment returns from childhood girls tend to

00:53focus better and complete homework more consistently okay now let's return to the latest visuals from

00:58india these clips show elated teachers warm congratulations being passed around boxes of

01:03sweet changing hands and beaming smiles on the faces of girls everywhere now all these girls delivered

01:08an outstanding performance in their board exams 92.7 percent of the total girls who appeared for this

01:14year's cbsc boards passed the exam the percentage for boys 89.9 that's a gap of 2.8 percent now let me

01:21take you to the research we did this study published in the psychological bulletin by the american psychological

01:25association looked at data from 1914 to 2011 that's more than 100 years covering over 1.1 million

01:33students across more than 30 countries it found that girls have consistently scored higher grades than

01:37boys for nearly a hundred years the difference is most visible in language subjects but by middle school

01:43girls begin to outperform boys in math and science as well why does this happen the researchers found that

01:49girls generally study to understand the subject while boys tend to focus more on just getting the grades

01:55researchers say this is what leads to girls scoring better grades overall girls also tend to be more

02:00consistent with homework a similar study by cambridge university press and assessment one of the largest

02:05of its kind in the uk showed that girls outperform boys from age of four all the way through university

02:10but even with stronger academic records the study pointed out that this early advantage does not always

02:16translate into better outcomes in the workplace women remain underrepresented in stem careers and

02:22leadership roles and pay gaps as you would know are still very common the real challenge is whether

02:27society is ready to match girls' academic achievements with equal opportunities in life beyond school

02:33tell us what you think in the comments oh yes also subscribe to more i may be a man but over 90

02:39of our producers that more happen to be women i'm anisha dhikari thank you for watching first things fast