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Anecdotal, but in Spain kids don't take these tests seriously. I remember when we were in school we would ask if the tests counted towards the final note for the subject and they didn't so we would just basically finish asap so we could do other things.

And I think this wasn't a "just my class" kind of thing.



Interesting. On page 34 of the report there's this:

> Hasty responses (percentage of responses that are both incorrect and fast – average across reading items)

Spain is at 9.7%, which is a bit over 8.9% oecd average.


> in Spain kids don't take these tests seriously

Is there evidence for this attitude not generalizing?


I don't have any other evidence, but if there are any Spaniards here I would like to hear what they think


Spaniard here. Yeah, not surprising — there’s a bit of a cultural fondness for sabotage, or at least for deliberately messing with things that are "official" but somehow unimportant.




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