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Year 6 Reading performance by gender

Performance » Performance by gender

A roughly equal number of year six girls and boys in Tonga had their performance analysed in the PILNA 2021 reading assessment: 47% girls and 53%.

Year 6 Reading mean performance by gender

Mean performance of Year 6 students in reading by gender, Tonga, PILNA 2021

Year 6 Reading mean performance by gender over time

Mean performance of Year 6 students in reading by gender, Tonga, PILNA 2015, 2018 and 2021

Figure CRF6.3 shows the average reading performance of year six students in Tonga by gender.

On average, year six girls (471.93, SD = 70.22) scored higher than year six boys (436.56, SD = 69.84) in PILNA 2021. This was similar to the 2015 and 2018 PILNA cycles, when, on average, year six girls scored higher than year six boys in reading performance.