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 ...

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 ...