there is minimal competing information in tasks requiring interpretation the reader may need to make simple connections between adjacent pieces of information disadvantaged students tend to do as expected in disadvantaged schools and advantaged students tend to do worse than expected but by about the same margin as in many other oecd countries in schools with a mixed socioeconomic intake disadvantaged students tend to do better than expected again by the same margin as in the oecd in general and advantaged students tend to do as expected