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Finland takes number one spot in OECD's latest PISA survey, advance figures show

29/11/2007 - Finland once again takes the number one spot in OECD's three-yearly PISA test of the abilities of a sample of 15-year old secondary-school students, followed by Hong Kong (China) and Canada in second and third place, according to advance details of results that will be published in full next week.

See table "Range of rank on the PISA 2006 science scale".

The table summarises the performance of 15-year-olds in science. It shows three main pieces of information:

The average score of the country on the science assessment. Across the 30 OECD countries the scores are statistically standardised to have an average of 500 points.

The rank of the country compared to other OECD countries.

The rank of the country compared to all the countries which participated in PISA 2006.

Sample test questions from the PISA 2006 assessment
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