CNBC | Girls Beat Boys in Eighth-Grade Tech, Engineering Literacy Tests: Survey CNBC American eighth-grade girls on average scored better than their male peers in technology and engineering literacy tests, according to a national report card released Tuesday. Girls scored three points higher than boys overall — a reversal of gender ... Girls outpace boys in US IT and engineering test Girls outperform boys in test of tech-engineering literacy Girls come out on top on nation's first technology, engineering test |