40% of rural youth can't tell time, 57% awful at basic math: ASER Survey
120 million youth are in 14-18 age group; survey covered more than 28,000 youngsters from 26 rural districts across 24 states LATEST NEWS : About 60 per cent of the rural youth have never used a computer or accessed internet; 57 per cent cannot solve a division problem; 40 per cent struggle to tell time in hours and minutes, while around 14 per cent of them cannot measure length using a reference scale properly, the 2017 annual status of education report (ASER) on assessment of youth in the age group 14 to 18 years, facilitated by Pratham education foundation has found. In less simple tests of ability, only 54 per cent could understand three out of four instructions written on a food packet, and further down the complexity line, only 38 per cent could find a particular count after applying a discount, and only 15 per cent could calculate a loan repayment amount exercise. However, there is a huge difference between youth who have completed more than eight years of educ...
