Nation's Academic Results

Since 2007, the Japanese government has been conducting national tests once a year to gauge the performances of primary 6 and secondary 3 students. Below is the result for the tests conducted in April, 2013.

		Yamagata Prefecture’s Ave.	Nation’s Ave.
Pri. 6	Japanese Lang. (theory)	63.9	62.7
	Japanese Lang. (application)	48.5	49.4
	Maths (theory)	77.3	77.2
	Maths (application)	57.1	58.4
Sec. 3	Japanese Lang. (theory)	78.9	76.4
	Japanese Lang. (application)	69.1	67.4
	Maths (theory)	63.1	63.7
	Maths (application)	40.7	41.5

As a whole, results are seen to have improved over the 4 years since such tests has started.