For parents
Short answers to parents' common questions about PISA, and three simple things you can do at home.
What is PISA?
An international study that checks whether 15-year-olds can apply what they know in real life. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) runs it every three years.
Will my child take part?
Not every school takes part, only randomly selected schools and students. If your child is selected, the school will let you know.
Does the result affect my child?
No. PISA does not affect grades, scholarships or university admission. Nobody sees individual results: the data are anonymous and analysed only at country level.
Should my child prepare?
No, and it would not help. The items are new each time. PISA measures skills needed in everyday life, so the best support is to build those skills at home.
What you can do at home
Talk about school
Ask not “what grade did you get?” but “what was hard to understand today?”
Read together
Spend fifteen minutes a day discussing an article or a book: what did the author want to say, do you agree, why?
Agree on AI
AI helps when it checks your child's thinking and harms when it replaces it. Ask them to write their own version first.
More: How PISA works.