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Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013 - 2025
Appendix V: Sample questions from PISA
Appendix V: sample questions from pisA
2009+
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) assesses 15-year-old students
in three aspects, Reading, Mathematics and Science over a range of difficulty from below
minimum, intermediate to advanced level. PISA is administered in the same language
of instruction in the mainstream education system in the participating country (Bahasa
Malaysia in the case of Malaysia). This appendix provides a sample of questions from each
aspect of Reading, Mathematics and Science across the three levels of difficulty and the
performance of Malaysia’s students in the assessment as compared to peers.
Exhibit V-1
PISA
assessment of mathematics
Assessment of Mathematics
Scale
Advanced
Intermediate
Below
min
Level
6
5
4
3
2
1
SOURCE: OECD
Lower
score
limit
% of students able to
score at each level
or above (in OECD) Expected competencies
669 3.1
607 12.7
545 31.6
482 56.0
420 78.0
358 92.0
▪ Conceptualise, generalise and utilise information based on their modeling of complex
problem situations
▪ Link different information sources and representations and flexibly translate between
them
▪ Capable of advanced mathematical thinking and reasoning
▪ Provide accurate interpretations of their findings
▪ Develop and work with models for complex situations, identify constraints and specify
assumptions
▪ Use broad, well-developed thinking and reasoning skills, appropriately linked
representations, symbolic and formal characterisations, and insight pertaining to
these situations
▪ Communicate their interpretations and reasoning
▪ Work effectively with explicit models for complex concrete situations that may involve
constraints or call for making assumptions
▪ Select and integrate different representations, including symbolic representations,
linking them directly to aspects of real-world situations
▪ Execute clearly described procedures
▪ Select and apply simple problem-solving strategies
▪ Interpret and use representations based on different information sources and reason
directly from them
▪ Develop short communications reporting their interpretations, results and reasoning
▪ Interpret and recognise situations in simple contexts with direct inference
▪ Extract relevant information from a single source and make use of a single
representational mode
▪ Direct reasoning and literal interpretations of the results
▪ Answer questions involving familiar contexts
▪ Identify information and carry out routine procedures according to direct instructions in
explicit situations
▪ Perform obvious actions that follow immediately from the given stimuli
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