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...classes, maybe like the year 9s, that could become a bit off-task if they can see the time’s going... then it’s a reference for you and perhaps for them... Students: This is Royal Alexandra and Albert School Dave Smith: You could have very easily said: ‘look, if you’re done this already, just go straight to the second question. But if you haven’t got a note,...

...class. Rather, the survey is designed to find out whether, for example, students can use the reading skills they have learned at school to make sense of the information they find in a book, a newspaper, on a government form or in an instruction manual. But the point of PISA is not to tell each individual student how well he or she has mastered a set of skills. Instead,...