7.4% of Japanese students are illiterate
QUICK: In Japanese ask a Japanese person what a newspaper story is about.
Nine out of ten times it will take them FIVE minutes to read and respond to a question that only takes me 15 seconds. Reading levels and reading speed in Japan are so low it’s laughable. Mind you I am talking about college grads—farmers construction workers actually are no worse or better.
Japanese students show marked declines in reading, mathematics
Japanese students registered the largest drop in scores for reading from the previous Program for International Student Assessment test….
…. Japanese students scored 498, down 24 points, dropping to the same level as the OECD average. In addition, there were six questions in reading in which the rate of blank answers rose by 5 points from the previous test. About 7.4 percent of Japanese students were ranked under Level 1, which is the lowest category. The percentage exceeded the OECD average of 6.7 percent.
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