Are you as stupid as the British children?

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So apparently the British children took a Pisa test and failed to make the top 20 in any of the 6 categories (each getting progressively harder)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25187997

Pisa have some sample questions on their website, they also show the ranking of different countries.

Here's the link http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/form/ How well do you do?

I got 6 out of 6 using just my brain. I don't know how well I would have done when I was 15.

On a second line of topic, do you feel we simply didn't do that well because the teachers decided not to let the kids worry about a meaningless exam, thus giving us a lower result than might otherwise be achievable?
 
I thought this was a joke site when I read this "In which month did the band No One's Darling sell more CDs than the band The Kicking Kangaroos for the first time?"

Then I noticed the graph :rolleyes:
 
Perhaps the British children were confused by the term 'CD', seeing as all music comes from iTunes :p
 
I saw this piece of news about 18 hours ago, wondering when it would turn up here.

It's not just about just the teacher not let the kids worrying about meaningless exams, it is the entire culture of education. In the far east, growing up, not only you have a background and culture of education is the key drone into you from an early age, the necessity of study and do good in school comes first and you are reminded of it every day. This idea of parents are happy with whatever their children do with their life as long as they are happy doesn't really exists if the child wants to be a bin man (no offence to bin man). They want their child to be successful and the most guaranteed way to be successful is through education.

Secondly, the parents puts pressure into the child to do well, then along with that, since everyone wants to do well, it creates a competition in a class room. You are rated against you peers in your school, ranked 1 - 400 (or whatever) in all subjects and then total rank in your year. In the UK, it causes uproar and would think a low rank on your child would be detriment to it's mental state...quite the opposite thinking in the far east. If you suck, you suck, stop moaning and do better next time. That's the truth so accept it, that is the attitude.

So the entire system, from parents in the home, from the mentality of the children, to the school are set up to push children better all the time. It would be impossible to put that here in the UK because there isn't that mentality to begin with. There will always be bright pupils who will do well and want to do well. But those who wants to coast through school will coast through school, if they go to school in the far east, they would probably be bottom of the class.
 
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you don't even need a brain until you get to the last 2 questions? and then a very small one

United Kingdom
55%

lol wtf you just have to see which number is the smallest....
 
85256638 said:
they are bad eduacated
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I skipped 2 years of school.
I has no GCSE's at all because I never took any.
I have a learning difficulty a pretty major one.

yet still find the above questions pretty simple and straight forward.
most of them you can only fail from having no reading comprehension.

seriously my 8 year old has homework a lot like the above questions 1-3 , how the hel can a 15 year old fail unless they did not try or randomly picked an answer
 
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Those questions were pretty straight forward. However, deciphering Raymond's post hurt my head :p
 
I got 5 out of 6, last one wrong. But couldn't be bothered calculating it and i knew the answer seemed unlikely when i entered it. Plus I don't have any real requirement in my life to calculate my km/per hour as i don't drive or ride a bike.

I also failed high school. :(
 
6/6 barebrained.

I could probably have done it faster when I was 15. Maybe when I was 10. I had the advantage of pre-school education in the basics. I could do basic arithmetic when I was small enough to fit in the toddler seats they used to have in shopping trolleys. I thought it was a game, but my mother was actually teaching me maths while shopping.

Although maybe I was slower just because I was expecting the questions to have some hidden difficulty and wasted some time looking for it. They were trivial.

Although I think that the revolving door question might have had the wrong answer. The first people to enter the door wouldn't exit it until half a revolution later, so the exit count would be reduced by 2 people (the 2 people in the segment halfway round would still be able to exit).
 
Wasn't too hard, but anyone who doesn't want to pay attention too much could easily get tricked out on the last few. The questions weren't hard, they were just trying to catch you out.

kd
 
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I got 5 out of 6, last one wrong. But couldn't be bothered calculating it and i knew the answer seemed unlikely when i entered it. Plus I don't have any real requirement in my life to calculate my km/per hour as i don't drive or ride a bike.

I also failed high school. :(
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But it's not about calculating Kmh. It's about understanding simple information, simple concepts and simple maths.
 
Naturally I got 6/6 :cool:

It's not surprising we score so poorly at this test though - we have the worst education system in the world. No other system would tolerate the middle-classes being creamed off into the independent sector leaving and not provide a standards uplift in the state sector.
 
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