Statistics Norway

Marks, lower secondary school

3 Average examination marks, selected subjects, by gender and parents' educational attainment level. 2011
Subject All pupils Boys Girls Parents' educational attainment level
Primary, lower secondary
or no formal education
Upper secondary education University and college education,
4 years or less
University and college education,
more than 4 years
Educational attainment
level unknown
English, written 3.8 3.6 3.9 3.2 3.6 4.0 4.4 3.3
English, oral 4.4 4.2 4.5 3.9 4.2 4.6 5.0 3.9
Mathematics, written 3.1 3.1 3.2 2.3 2.8 3.4 4.0 2.8
Mathematics, oral 4.1 4.0 4.2 3.4 3.8 4.4 4.8 3.7
Natural sciences, oral 4.2 4.1 4.4 3.5 4.0 4.6 5.0 3.7
Norwegian first-choice form, written 3.5 3.2 3.8 3.0 3.3 3.7 4.0 2.8
Norwegian second-choice form, written 3.2 3.0 3.4 2.7 3.0 3.4 3.7 3.1
Norwegian, oral 4.4 4.1 4.7 3.8 4.2 4.7 5.0 4.1
Religion, philosophy and ethics, oral 4.4 4.2 4.7 3.8 4.2 4.7 5.1 3.9
Social sciences, oral 4.3 4.1 4.5 3.6 4.1 4.6 5.1 3.9

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