00:021.3 million students were due to sit this test, which tests for basic literacy and numeracy
00:07among students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It's a really massive day on the school calendar.
00:12Schools spend quite a bit of time preparing for this, as do students and families. Just
00:18after 10am this morning we started to get word from on the ground in schools that there
00:22had been a problem with the software. It seems that basically just five minutes after testing
00:28started there was something caused the software to crash. Schools were unable to access the
00:33test and so testing was paused. We're still to get to the bottom of exactly why that is.
00:40It is a breaking news story but we're going to have an update from ACARA, the body that
00:45administers the test in about an hour's time I believe. So testing has now resumed and we don't
00:50know what the problem was. Very disruptive though. Yes that's right it is and for ACARA, the Australian
00:55Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority, which administers NAPLAN, this is really the
00:59big day on the calendar for them. So it is quite an embarrassing glitch and we'll be very keen to
01:05hear from ACARA's CEO Stephen Ganeel shortly about exactly why this has happened. ACARA is, sorry NAPLAN
01:13is controversial in some quarters. It's long been opposed by teachers unions and some academics so
01:18anything like this that gives its critics ammunition will be a cause for concern for ACARA.
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