The latest round of NAPLAN results have found thousands of students are failing to meet basic benchmarks.
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In NSW, one in three students performed below expectations in this year’s literacy and numeracy exams, while 40 per cent of year 9 children failed grammar and punctuation tests.
In Victoria, nearly 30 per cent of school children are struggling with about 88,000 of the 300,000 Victorian youngsters who sat the test this year rated as either “developing” or “needing additional support”.
Female students across Australia outperformed their male classmates in writing, achieving average NAPLAN scores above boys in every year group, with just over 73 per cent of year 7 girls writing at either “strong” or “exceeding” levels, compared with 58 per cent of boys of the same age.
Male students showed stronger numeracy results, with 5.9 per cent fewer year 3 girls and 6.7 per cent fewer year 5 girls achieving “exceeding” results than boys in the same year groups.
Those in remote areas were less likely to perform well in the tests, while about one in three First Nations students rated as “needs additional support” compared with under one in 10 of their non-Indigenous counterparts.
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