The bar charts show education data related to young adults aged 15 years old in 10 different countries in 2015. The first chart shows in which countries adolescents do the most homework in terms of the hours per week. The second chart shows the nations that scored the best on an international science test. Summarise the data by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The first chart illustrates the number of
hours
spent by 15-year-old adolescents on homework in various countries
in 2015. The second bar chart highlights the top countries
with scores recorded in science measured against international standards by the same age group in the same year.
In general, what stands out from the graph is that Finland
students spent the least hours
on their assignments compared to the others. However
, they got significantly the best scores on the international science test.
In detail, Among the top countries
that spent time
on doing homework, Finland
spent the least time
2.8 hours
, while
South Korean and Japanese students averaged 2.9 and 4.3 hours
, respectively. The average time
in the rest of the countries
fell between five to seven hours
, while
Italy spent the longest time
(8.6 hours
) doing assignments, over four times longer than Finland
.
With respect to science scores, teenagers in Finland
scored the highest with a mean score of 568, despite spending the least amount of time
doing their homework. Aside from Hong Kong-China which recorded 543, adolescents in the following six nations averaged 530 points. The lowest score was recorded by the Netherlands and the USA, with 518 and 516 points. Interestingly, Italy did not qualify to be within the top ten countries
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