In particular, the primary and secondary educational sectors registered many successes in putting the education on a higher level through a brisk emulation.

Cities and counties directed primary efforts to improving the teachers' quality and standard, holding fast to this work as an essential factor for the development of education in their regions. To this end, the reeducation was given to teachers through a tele-education system. And a work was conducted to build up the competent teaching staff for IT senior middle schools newly set up throughout the country.

Meanwhile, the Korean-style educational methods based on modern science and technology were invented and introduced into practice.

In Pyongyang City alone, more than 80 model lessons were created and educational aid programs were devloped to raise the effectiveness of teaching. And schools developed bootstrap lesson programs to ensure the smooth implementation of the education program while abiding by the anti-epidemic rules for preventing inroads of COVID-19.

In January, the state monolithic examination for students in their final year at senior middle schools was successfully carried out, which served as an occasion in raising the level of IT education at rural and mountainous schools.