Sex, Sex, Sex that’s all it’s about! (Are girls really brighter at 'A' level than boys?)

Member Name: little devil

Product:	Are girls really brighter at 'A' level than boys?
Date:	28/06/01 (156 review reads)
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Advantages: better exam results, higher standard of education

Disadvantages: ladish culture

So lets see at A level, or even this new AS level what age of student are we looking at, 17/18 possibly a year younger for the brighter ones. This plays an important part in deciding if it is fair to say girls are really brighter than the boys are.

I remember the A level results last year, a friend of mine had done his exams and was dreading the results. He had crammed revision in at the last possible minute and wasted most of his study leave going out with the mates and getting sozzled. He came out of school, with mediocre results, not terrible but certainly lower than he would have liked. Yet it seemed the majority of the girls were over the moon. Yes it has finally happened the fairer sex have stormed ahead of the lads and proved just where the brains are. Or have they?

Now you may be a little confused, after all I am not just here spouting a feminine view saying yes girls are more intelligent than boys, this is because I actually don’t believe they are. They have more common sense but when it come to intelligence as with all things there are people of both sexes that excel above the rest. It is not fair to pick one as the domineering in terms of brain cells.

What’s changed…?
Well since the good old days when the male of the species seemed to pound their female counterparts into the ground and come out with results that were far better, the education system has changed. In a word I am referring to ‘coursework’. That’s the big long pieces of work the kids have to do in their own time, and yes it counts towards their exam. So why should this matter.

Well I remember having a conversation with an English teacher I know and she said that the system f coursework put everyone at an advantage, but that it was the women who put in the most effort. They wanted the marks in the bag, as one would say, and so put all the effort they have in with extra research etc. Whilst the men are a li
ttle arrogant and think they know it and try to knock it off in a few days.

For a long time it was the boys who outshone the girls, but the introduction of coursework takes some of the pressure off the exam, and lets face it men seem to deal a lot better with pressure than women. If anyone is going to get het up and in a state over exams it’s the females. So having a little of that taken off allows them to be more settled and relaxed.

The male of the species…
Well there has been an increase in the desire for young men, particularly of this age, to show off in front of their mates. We’ve all seen ‘Men Behaving Badly’ I’m sure, this glorifies the ladish culture that has grown in society. So what effect will this have?

Well it has had a great effect. The boys are reluctant to settle down and get to work. It is not the ‘cool’ thing to do. It’s far more accepted to drool over the teacher (presuming it’s a female one) and throw sharp objects at each other. Knowing a teacher who is young, blonde and well endowed she hated teaching her subject at A level. The lads all paid no attention and instead insisted on making obscene and uncomfortable remarks at her. The girls were more willing to just get on with the work and prepare for the exam. However this is not the done thing in a circle of males, they need to prove their masculinity. Sadly this is done by not caring in their future or education. Sad really they are not only distributing theirs but everyone else’s as well.

They also don’t see why the girls are doing so much better than them, and they will not ask, well not seriously anyway. Men don’t need help, it’s the case with most males though, dive into a problem even if you don’t know what you’re doing and refuse any help.

I know a young man who is now 25 and in a good job, yet he still regrets his school days, whe
n the rise of he bad lad started, and would give anything to improve his exam results. He has had to work hard to prove himself and knuckled down when he grew up, sadly it takes a while for men to grow up.

The female of the species…
Women we have all taken to asserting our right to be women and equality and all that stuff, so this has been brought into the classroom too. Society has changed and so have attitudes. Girls no longer feel stupid if they are lost, they ask for help and learn more. They have put the ‘kick ass’ theory into the school as well as the work place. So is it that the lasses have put their nose to the grindstone and knuckled down?

Or maybe it’s just that the girls are achieving at the same level and the lads have got worse, as it is not the done thing to study.

The fact is girls study harder and apply themselves to tasks more.

Society…
Well, well, well when it was the boys that were doing better this was accepted as the normal thing, but now that girls are out shining them there is an outcry. Why is this? Well I don’t know really. No one was bothered about improving education standards for the females when they were getting poor results, no because women are not as intelligent as men. So now we are doing better, and showing more intelligence the men, who lets face it still dominate industry and politics, are getting a little worried.

Why are girls doing better then…?
From what I can gather it is that fact that the females are more willing to knuckle down and get on with their work, we don’t see it as a weakness to ask for help and admit struggling with something. Men on the other hand see this as being ‘sad’ and are much more inclined to looking at porn mags and going out and getting drunk with their mates. Nothing wrong with that as long as they put in the effort required.

What can we do about it…?
I
don’t claim to have the solution, how do you educate and entire generation who see education as a waste of time and will refuse to lower themselves to a standard of working well. Having single sex schools is an option, but would this really stop the behaviour of a group of rowdy lads, I am more inclined to think it would just frustrate them more and there would be a rise in sexual innuendoes and such. Watch out all the female teachers, no tight white tops to work!

Girls would benefit from a single sex school, as the lads who prat around would not have the chance to disturb their learning and hold the attention of the teachers.

The blokes of the world need to learn that getting your education is the most sensible thing to do, it may seem like fun to be thrown out of every lesson and be the joker of the class but at the end of the day it’s their life that they are playing devils advocate with and if they ruin it then they have no one else to blame.

I think that a different system needs to be put into practice, exams are horrible things and for those of us who have done A levels or a degree course you know the terror and pressure they put on you. Exams are not a fair assessment of ability or intelligence, they relay somewhat on the luck of the questions and being fit that day of the exam.

So are girls really brighter than boys…?
My answer to this would be not in terms of education, they simply assert themselves better and are not afraid to do well. So in some ways wanting to get a good education does make them more intelligent…

Each person is different and A levels measure your application of a particular subject, for example I always had a natural flare for History and Business, and so no matter how little work I did ii did well in tests and exams. Many men are very scientifically minded and women creative (sorry for generalising). Therefore if you have a natural ability in a subject surely
you’ll come out on top anyway.


Girls do a lot better than boys at A level, this is clear in the statistics but they are not more intelligent. The difference is the way the two sexes work and their attitude towards life. So for the girls I am taking nothing away from the good results, and lads get some work done, it’s better to look a little pathetic in front of your mates now than it is to regret the way you acted in your years to come.

Some generalisations may have offended but we must all know that I do not think it applies to all girls and all boys, just so you know now!

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