Japan drops in OECD scholastic ranking, China leads in all categories english.kyodonews.net

China, represented by students in Beijing and Shanghai, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, occupied top spots in all three categories.
With respect to reading comprehension, Asian countries and economies grabbed the top four spots with Singapore, Macao, and Hong Kong ranking second, third, and fourth.
"Among OECD countries, Japanese students particularly lag behind in access to digital devices in classrooms, and they are not familiarized with texts presented in forms different from books and periodicals," the official of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said.
The OECD assessed that the long-term trend of Japanese students' overall performance was stable.
About 6,100 Japanese students from 183 public and private schools participated in the test, consisting of multiple-choice questions and questions which required them to construct their own answers.