Who Performed Better in Their Gcse's?

649 Words3 Pages
Many people would think that those who do better in their GCSE’s are simply the ones who are more intelligent. But why are some students more intelligent than others? One of the major factors that influence a person’s attainment and progress throughout their education may be the wealth of their family. Take an upper class or middle class family, for example. How does money affect a person’s intelligence? If a family is fairly wealthy, they are more likely to be able to sufficiently fund resources and materials to help their child’s education, for example; being able to afford their child to have a placement at a private school. Although the teaching standards at a public school may be just as high as the teaching standards at a private school, private schools also tend to enforce stricter rules, which therefore means that those who have a low attendance or a poor behaviour, are less likely to be allowed to educate there, and the school may only allow students that are focused on their education. Also, upper class and middle class students may perform better because things such as educational trips or text books can easily be paid for. Those students that are of working class or lower class may not perform as well in exams as those that are in middle and upper classes as they may not have sufficient funds to pay for things such as educational trips and text books. This means that they may lack more knowledge of a subject than others because they don’t have the resources they may need to enhance their education. There is also a debate on whether girls or boys do better in their GCSE’s. According to ‘The Independent’ on the 23d of August 2012 “At grades A* to C, girls are pulling away, with 65.4% of boys' entries attaining that level, compared to 73.3% of girls' entries”. Also, according to statistics, girls have performed better in their GCSE’s since 1991. Although
Open Document