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Assessment of primary education
What 12-year-old students learn

 

Natural sciences

Living beings

There were 5 questions on
  • Animals and plants; their development, functions and classification
  • Relationships between living beings
  • Observation of life-forms
Objective
The student should be familiar with the basic characteristics of the principal plants and animals in the immediate environment
Overall Result
Average score for this part of the test: 64% correct answers
Easiest question: 82% correct answers
Most difficult question: 40% correct answers



Easiest question

Objective
Recognition of the principal parts of plants

Which are a flower's reproductory organs?

Corolla and calyx         1
Petals and sepals         2
Stamens and gynaeceum     3*
Petals and corolla        4


Most difficult question

Objective
Understanding of the importance of animals for humans

In a terrarium we place plants, a piece of bread and some insects, such as greenfly, ladybirds, potato beetles and ants. We then study the behaviour of these living beings and write down our observations:

  • Greenfly: These live on the plants and feed on the juices in the stems
  • Ladybirds: These live among the plants and feed on greenfly
  • Potato beetles: These live on the plants and feed on their leaves
  • Ants: These roam all over the terrarium, eating bread and other dead insects
Which of the insects could we say are good for crops?

Greenfly and ladybirds     1
None                       2
Ants                       3
Ladybirds                  4*


Average difficulty question

Objective
Knowledge of the more general classifications in the animal world

All these animals are vertebrates. Which are birds and why?

Bats and ducks, because they fly                    1
Lizards, because they lay eggs                      2
Frogs and ducks because they live near water        3
Ducks and ostriches, because they have feathers     4*


Correct answers

 

Ordered: easiest, most difficult, average difficulty question.

 

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