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Gender differences on the academic achievement was assessed through rescoring and analysing a random sample of the final examination results of 5014 male and female students at Sana'a University, Yemen. The sample was for students from three faculties, namely Arts, Science and Education. The results were to 36 random samples of the academic courses from the second semester of the academic year 2001-2002 and the first semester of the academic year 2002-2003. The percentages of females were 18.97%, 53.1% and 36,4% in the Arts, Science and Education respectively. The students' sample of Education has been separated into Education Arts and Education Science. The percentages of males were 65.3% and 47.9% in Education Arts and Education Science respectively. The standard mean differences on the academic achievement in Science, Education Arts and Education Science were in the favor of female students while the standard mean difference in Arts was in the favor of male students. All other statistics are indicating that female students are academically performing slightly better than males students at Sana’a University, Yemen.
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