in schools with a privileged socioeconomic intake disadvantaged students tend to do better than expected but by a smaller margin compared to other oecd countries and advantaged students tend to do better than expected within a similar margin of other oecd countries table in pisa results volume ii most of the students who perform poorly in pisa share a challenging socioeconomic background and yet some of iheir socioeconomically disadvantaged peers excel in pisa and beat the odds working against them these students show that overcoming socioeconomic barriers to achievement is possible while the prevalence of resilience is not the same across educational systems it is possible to identify substantial numbers of resilient students in practically all oecd countries