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School tests show students lack ability to apply skills

Primary and middle school students lack the ability to apply academic skills despite having a basic grounding in areas such as reading, writing and calculation, according to the results of a nationwide achievement test conducted by the Education, Science and Technology Ministry.

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One response to “School tests show students lack ability to apply skills”

  1. Shayna, Sep 20 at 1:50 am :
  2. yeah i will love to come to Japan and live there and go to school there. and well i’m searching the web for some ideas.But sadly i’m just a minor. and my mom well probly like it if i wnet to go live over there.well every time i see Tokyo on american movies i get ecited for some reason. hehe i LOVE Japan, Tokyo.

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