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I would not have thought it possible, but you are right.arildno said:Take heart. The situation is even worse here in Norway. :grumpy:
Note that these are just the math scores, below. The 2003 eighth grade science scores are also on that page, table 9.
From http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/timss03/tables.asp" [Broken] (figures in table 3)
Table 3. Average mathematics scale scores of eighth-grade students, by country: 2003 ('+' = higher than US average, '•' = not measurably different, '-' = lower)
Country Average score
– International average1 466
+ Singapore 605
+ Korea, Republic of 589
+ Hong Kong SAR2,3 586
+ Chinese Taipei 585
+ Japan 570
+ Belgium-Flemish 537
+ Netherlands2 536
+ Estonia 531
+ Hungary 529
• Malaysia 508
• Latvia 508
• Russian Federation 508
• Slovak Republic 508
• Australia 505
• (United States) 504
• Lithuania4 502
• Sweden 499
• Scotland2 498
• (Israel) 496
• New Zealand 494
– Slovenia 493
– Italy 484
– Armenia 478
– Serbia4 477
– Bulgaria 476
– Romania 475
– Norway 461
– Moldova, Republic of 460
– Cyprus 459
– (Macedonia, Republic of) 435
– Lebanon 433
– Jordan 424
– Iran, Islamic Republic of 411
– Indonesia4 411
– Tunisia 410
– Egypt 406
– Bahrain 401
– Palestinian National Authority 390
– Chile 387
– (Morocco) 387
– Philippines 378
– Botswana 366
– Saudi Arabia 332
– Ghana 276
– South Africa 264
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