Students have achieved their lowest writing results since NAPLAN began, with more than one-fifth of year 9 students not reaching the national minimum standard.

In comparison, an average of 1.7 per cent of girls were at or below the minimum standard in year 3 over the past 12 years of NAPLAN testing, compared with nine per cent in year 9, data reported in ...

Naplan scores reveal thousands of Year 9 students at risk of failing to gain the HSC. NSW students are stellar spellers and masters of maths but their writing skills have slipped over the past ...

The results reveal that 60 per cent of Year 9 students risk flunking the HSC unless they knuckle down to improve their literacy and numeracy results in the final three years of high school. A back ...