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Year 9 students from Melton Secondary College Pardis 14, Ace and Chloe 14 spending their spare time reading. The college has worked to improve the Year 9 cohort's literacy. It comes as the latest figures show stagnating results and poor participation of Year 9 students in NAPLAN.   Picture: David Caird

Radical plan to link year 9 NAPLAN to jobs

Latest NAPLAN results have revealed poor participation rates and stagnating results among Victoria’s year 9 students. The Education Minister is considering a dramatic plan that could shake up student engagement with the national test.

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Year 7 students seeing how the new NAPLAN online setup operates.

Tech glitches force 50,000 NAPLAN re-sits

NAPLAN students had the “pretty traumatic” experience of tech issues in more than 50,000 assessments this year, the testing authority has revealed, with the writing exam suffering the most problems.

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