40% of rural youth can't tell time, 57% awful at basic math: ASER Survey

120 million youth are in 14-18 age group; survey covered more than 28,000 youngsters from 26 rural districts across 24 states

About 60 per cent of the rural youth have never used a computer or accessed internet; 57 per cent cannot solve a division problem; 40 per cent struggle to tell time in hours and minutes, while around 14 per cent of them cannot measure length using a reference scale properly, the 2017 annual status of education report (ASER) on assessment of youth in the age group 14 to 18 years, facilitated by Pratham education foundation has found.

In less simple tests of ability, only 54 per cent could understand three out of four instructions written on a food packet, and