About 79,000 second graders are illiterate

Basic Education Commission secretary general Khunying Kasama Varawarn Monday disclosed that the test in Thai language checked the ability of all second graders across the country to understand 3,000 standard vocabularies.

However, the test results showed that up to 12 per cent of all 630,000 second graders in the country did not understand those vocabularies well enough and were thus considered illiterate.

Kasama said her office was now trying to solve the problem.