CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -India will participate in PISA 2021. MHRD, in 2018, decided that India will become a participant in Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA).

Detailed explanation-2: -Eighty-five countries are taking part in PISA 2022. Three key learning subject areas are assessed: reading literacy, mathematics literacy and scientific literacy, with a focus on one of these areas in each cycle.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which countries participate in PISA? The number of countries/regions participating in PISA has increased from 32 in 2000 to about 88 in PISA 2022. Since 2003, all OECD member countries have taken part in PISA. The table of participating countries shows the countries that participated in PISA 2018.

Detailed explanation-4: -“The Government of India had decided to participate in the Pisa 2022 to be conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Detailed explanation-5: -In this round of PISA, where students from Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu sat for the test, India ranked 72nd out of 73 countries, outranking only Kyrgistan. Since then, India has strayed away from the test until now, for students from Chandigarh will be sitting for the test in 2021.