Female Students get More Marks as Compared to Male Students: A Statistical Study

Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to find various causes which leads towards the success of the female students rather than male students. Nowadays in educational institutions most of the position holders are females. For these investigations sample of 200 students of University of Peshawar selected from different departments and investigated through a questionnaire. There were 55.5% male respondents and 44.5% are females respondents. 75% respondents were agreed that female students get more marks rather than male students, 25% were disagreed. The investigation of marks percentage showed that 8.11% male students and 1.12% female students were in the range of 51-60 percentage marks, low range of marks have less number of female students. As the range increased from 50-60 percentage to interval of 71-80 percentage of marks so there were found 44.14% male students and 46.06% female students. And in the range of 81% and above there were 18.01% males and 40.45% females students. These results showed that more female students have high range of marks as compared to male students. And at low range of marks only 1.12% females compared to 8.11% males. Over all comparison showed that more female students have high marks rather than male students or female students perform better than male students. 60.5% of the respondents believe that female students are more studios as compare to male students. And 21% responses were thinking that female students are not more studios than male students and 18.5% respondents had no opinion that who are more studios. 76% of the respondents said that female students are more serious toward their studies comparatively to male students. Technique of odds ratio analysis was performed to check at the association of female students get more marks as compare to male students with females attend classes (lectures) more regularly, females know the art of attempting paper in a better way, females ask more questions in the class from teachers. The odds ratio analysis suggests that the female students get more marks as compare to male students were significantly associated with females attend classes (lectures) more regularly, females know the art of attempting paper in a better way, and females ask more questions in the class from teachers.