Singapore's education system faces fierce competition: PM

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SINGAPORE: Although the education system in Singapore has served the country well, it will have to continue to improve.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1102333/1/.html

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The executive summary is at http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/60/46619703.pdf
page 7 has the results in table form.

I tried to manually extract the top 5 of Reading, Mathematics, Science. May not be accurate. done manually.
65 countries in the table.

Reading
Shanghai-China: 556
Korea: 539
Finland: 536
Hong Kong - China: 533
Singapore: 526

Mathematics
Shanghai-China : 600
Singapore: 562
Hong Kong-China: 555
Korea: 546
Chinese taipei : 543

Science
Shanghai-China: 575
Finland: 554
Hong Kong-China : 549
Singapore: 542
Japan: 539