BUDAPEST, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian students showed improvements in reading, maths and science performance in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) triennial assessment of academic performance of 15-year-olds, Hungarian State Secretary for Public Education Zoltan Maruzsa said here on Tuesday.
"Results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 test show that Hungary scored 476 points in reading, improving from 470 points in the 2015 assessment," Maruzsa was quoted by the Hungarian news agency MTI as saying.
Hungary's score in maths rose to 481 points from 477, and the country's score in science also climbed to 481 points from 477, Maruzsa said.
The scores were close to but still below the OECD average of 487 in reading, 489 in maths and 489 in science.
The rate of low performers in all subjects stood at 15.5 percent, above the OECD average of 13.4 percent.