Hungarian students achieve best ever PIRLS test results

 

Hungarian fourth-grade students around the age of ten have achieved their best ever results in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international test of reading and literacy involving 50 countries, an official of the Hungarian Education Office said on Tuesday.

Hungary scored 554 points in 2016, a 15-point improvement on the 2011 results, Ildikó Balázsi said. Hungary was ranked joint 9th on the international list along with ten other countries with similar results, she said.

Commenting on the results, László Palkovics, state secretary for education, noted that public schools have been under direct state supervision since 2012. This, he said, provided a safer, more stable and predictable environment. The government’s career model for teachers is also paying dividends, he added.