Band 7.5 — Table: Pupils Reaching the Expected Reading Standard by Region
📄 Bài mẫu band 7.5
The table shows the proportion of primary school pupils who met the expected standard in reading in four regions of a country in 2015 and 2020.
Overall, performance improved in every region over the five-year period, and the gap between the strongest and weakest regions narrowed considerably, although the East remained ahead throughout.
The East began and ended the period as the top-performing region. Its figure, already high at 80% in 2015, edged up only slightly to 82%, suggesting limited room for further improvement. The North likewise progressed steadily, climbing from 72% to 78%.
The more striking gains, however, came from the weaker regions. The South improved by nine percentage points, from 65% to 74%, while the West—the lowest-ranked region at both dates—recorded the largest rise of all, twelve points, from 58% to 70%. As a result, the gap between the East and the West, which had stood at 22 points in 2015, was almost halved to 12 by 2020.