for the first lime pisa also included an assessment of the financial literacy of young people which was optional for countries it emphasises the mastery of processes the understanding of concepts and the ability to function in various types of situations in a range of countries and economies an additional minutes were devoted to the computerbased assessment of mathematics reading and problem solving the items were organised in groups based on a passage setting out a reallife situation a total of about minutes of test items were covered with different students taking different combinations of test items