Students at Edmund Rice College are among thousands across NSW who will resit NAPLAN tests next Tuesday after technical glitches plagued the first round of testing.
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About 400 schools across Australia reported ongoing dropouts, lags, difficulties logging in and problems inputting answers during last week's exams.
Critics used the latest NAPLAN drama to reignite calls to scrap the standardised tests.
A review of NAPLAN is under way, but federal Education Minister Dan Tehan continues to back the tests, which states and territories are required to participate in to receive their share of federal funding.
President of the NSW Teachers' Federation Maurie Mulheron though said holding resits was a waste of resources and will not fix NAPLAN'S fundamental issues.
"NAPLAN really is a dud," Mr Mulheron said.
The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), which administers NAPLAN, confirmed that a number of tests will be available to be taken again, with most to be done online.
"The majority of schools who have opted to resit tests have chosen to do so online," a spokesman for NESA said.
"The writing test was the main one affected by the connectivity issues on day one, however other tests that were affected are available to be re-sat next Tuesday as well.
"NESA is ensuring that every student has a fair and reasonable opportunity to resit the tests."
Edumund Rice College is part of the almost 50 per cent of schools which did the online NAPLAN tests this year.
The school, which experienced connectivity issues, emailed parents informing them their children could resit the Writing test on May 28.
Agron Latifi
Wollongong born and bred. I love reporting about the Illawarra region and have been doing it for more than 20 years. I've moved into sport recently after covering the education round for the last five plus years for the Illawarra Mercury. It's been a great pleasure.
Wollongong born and bred. I love reporting about the Illawarra region and have been doing it for more than 20 years. I've moved into sport recently after covering the education round for the last five plus years for the Illawarra Mercury. It's been a great pleasure.
