NAPLAN: 87 per cent of NSW Indigenous students need to resit tests

By Pallavi Singhal
Updated January 24 2018 - 9:43am, first published December 25 2017 - 3:55pm

At least 87 per cent of Indigenous students in year 9 in NSW will need to resit a reading, writing or numeracy test to be eligible for their HSC, compared with 59 per cent of non-Indigenous students, prompting concerns that the government's new minimum literacy and numeracy standards will further widen the year 12 completion gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

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