I wonder if the gender imbalance had an influence on this decision. According to Wikipedia there are 1.14 boys for every girl in the 15 and under age bracket. The lag in maturity got maybe more pronounced because there simply were more boisterous boys in the classrooms than mature girls who can answer all the questions.
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That’s my personal opinion, you are free to ignore if you want
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Ok thank you, I understood my mistake, I would rectify it
A prominent Chinese educator, Sun Yunxiao, found the proportion of boys classed among the top scholars in the country’s “gaokao” university entrance exams plunged from 66.2 percent to 39.7 percent between 1999 and 2008. Across the developed world, girls do better than boys in secondary school, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) found in a 2009 report on the educational performances of 15-year-olds. “There are significant gender differences in educational outcomes,” he said
