NAPLAN 2015 numeracy: Students battle 'maths' to mark end of paper tests

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated May 23 2015 - 2:13pm, first published May 14 2015 - 6:50pm
Year 5 Kambala students Lily Tucker (left), Amber Burke, Chloe Makhlin, Olivia Thoma and Isabella Thomas sat the NAPLAN test on Thursday. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Year 5 Kambala students Lily Tucker (left), Amber Burke, Chloe Makhlin, Olivia Thoma and Isabella Thomas sat the NAPLAN test on Thursday. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

As the clock struck 10am on Thursday, it was all over for school students around the country, as rubbers frantically tried to correct wandering marks, eyes flirted with wrong answers and a million pencils crashed on wooden desks.

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