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Exhibit V-9
PiSA
PISA
assessment of reading
Assessment of Reading
4
3
2
1a
1b
553 28.3
480 57.2
407 81.2
335 94.3
262 98.9
Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013 - 2025
Appendix V: Sample questions from PISA
Lower % of students able to
score score at each level
Scale Level limit or above (in OECD) Expected competencies
6 698 0.8 ▪ Highly skilled readers
▪ Comprehend both explicit and implicit information
▪ Reflect on and evaluate what they read at a more general level
Advanced
5 626 7.6 ▪ Find information in texts that are unfamiliar to either form or content, demonstrate
detailed understanding, and infer which information is relevant to the task
▪ Evaluate critically and build hypotheses, draw on specialised knowledge and
accommodate concepts that may be contrary to expectations
Intermediate
Below
min
SOURCE: OECD
▪ Capable of difficult reading tasks, such as locating embedded information, construing
meaning from nuances of language and critically evaluating a text
▪ Capable of reading tasks of moderate complexity, such as locating multiple pieces of
information, making links between different parts of a text, and relating it to familiar
everyday knowledge
▪ Locate information that meets several conditions
▪ Make comparisons or contrasts around a single feature
▪ Understand a well-defined text even when the information is not prominent
▪ Make connections between the text and personal experience
▪ Locate pieces of explicitly stated information that is rather prominent in the text
▪ Recognise a main idea in a text about a familiar topic and the connection between
information in such a text and their everyday experience
▪ Find explicitly stated information in short, simple texts with a familiar style and content
▪ Make low-level inferences such as recognising a causal connection across
two sentences even when it is not stated
A-30