THE performance of Grade 6 students in the National Achievement Test (NAT) has been steadily declining in the last three years, placing them at the “low mastery” descriptive level of the Department of Education (DepEd).

The 2018 NAT results showed that for the third straight year, the national average mean percentage score (MPS) in the Grade 6 NAT continued its downward trajectory at 37.44, the weakest performance in the history of the standardized examination of the DepEd.

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