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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
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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:
Which of the insects could we say are good for crops?
- 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
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
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Ordered: easiest, most difficult, average difficulty question.