PISA 2025 put Mexico at the bottom of the OECD again. We're not going to repeat the diagnosis here: we're going to what actually depends on you and on the people you work around.
Yesterday the OECD published the PISA 2025 results, the test that measures what fifteen-year-olds can do across 91 countries. Mexico came in 64th in science, with 414 points, last among OECD countries alongside Colombia. And seven out of ten students did not reach the basic level in mathematics.
The full numbers are in the OECD report. We're not going to repeat them here.
What we do want to say is this: the test is taken at fifteen, but a working life runs another forty years. If you freelance, run a business or work remotely from Playa del Carmen, you're not in that sample anymore. What you learn from here on depends on you and on the people around you. And that part does move.
The figure that matters for adults
There's a detail in the report that almost nobody is going to mention. 47% of Mexican students already use AI chatbots to learn at least once a week. That's practically the same share as the OECD average, which came in at 46%.
So access to the tool isn't the difference anymore. The difference is what you ask it and what you do with the answer.
That holds at fifteen and at forty. Someone with a solid foundation uses AI to go faster. Someone without one uses it to avoid noticing what they don't know.
The good news is that the foundation gets built at any age, and it gets built better in company.
Three things you can do this week
Pick one skill and give it an hour. Not a six month course. One concrete skill that's slowing you down: reading a financial statement, writing a proposal people understand, building a pivot table, getting through a client call in Spanish without sweating. One fixed hour a week in the calendar, with the same respect you give a client meeting.
Learn out loud. The fastest way to find out whether you understood something is to explain it to someone. In a shared space that happens on its own: the person next to you knows something you don't, and the other way around. Ask. Offer. A shared table is the cheapest education you'll find.
Use AI as a tutor, not as an oracle. Ask it to question you instead of answering you. To correct you. To explain why your reasoning is wrong. Used that way it's worth more than most courses. Used as copy and paste it's worth nothing.
What we're putting on the table
We want to open a monthly slot at Kiin Hub for members to learn from each other: someone from the community shares something they're good at, in an hour, with no filler slides. Finances for people working on their own, how to quote without giving the work away, AI tools we actually use, whatever anyone at the table knows how to do well.
If you have something to teach or something you want to learn, write to us or tell us next time you're here. The community builds the list of topics, not us.
Mexico scored 414 points in science. Nobody is changing that number now. The next one is yours to write.
At Kiin Hub we have the Mesa Kiin: putting your case in front of people who know different things. Tax and accounting, labor, value proposition, process and technology. If you want to talk through what's worth learning first, bring it.
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