Total 29,9 13,9 22,1 39,3 17,7 28,6 27,5 12,9 20,2 Source: National School Statistics Directory of the Directorate of Educational Planning and Evaluation (DPEE), June, 2015 282. The gender disparities and regional disparities are more pronounced at this level of education. For every 10 boys, there are less than 5 girls in all the regions except the Golfe-Lomé region. 283. The number of students who repeat their class in first cycle of secondary education is 22.5%. A rate of high repetition has the effect of creating school dropouts who do not obtain a school certificate to end that cycle of education. In all the regions, the boys have higher promotion rates than those of girls. 284. It must be noted that repetition increases as the cycle goes on. Indeed, in the secondary school, 25.2% of students repeat their class, and this translates into a high dropout rate. On the whole, girls repeat more than the boys. 285. The repetition by girls can be explained by their occupation with domestic chores and early pregnancies. To address this phenomenon, awareness raising campaigns have been carried out by the government and NGOs in schools and in the media. 286. Generally, candidates in the Mathematics Option succeed better in the Baccalauréat than those in the other Options. It is also in this Option that girls succeed better than boys in certain regions, even though their number is very low. The results vary from one region to the other. In the Plateaux and Savannah regions, it can be seen that girls are missing from the Mathematics Option candidates (Série C). Table No.20 : Success rate at the Baccalauréat Part 2 REGION A C D 84