LOL TD

I'm only assuming thats what they did, otherwise there would at least be a small percentage that would have gotten those ones right. I know there is a spelling assessment that my DS did at the start of the year that has 100 words on it and they are asked to spell the words as they are read out in a test and I spoke to DS's teacher about something else and this spelling test came up during the discussion and she explained that only yr 6 children and higher are able to spell the hardest words and the test relies on a sliding scale - so in yr 3 they were only expected to get around 50% on this test, but when the same test is repeated over the next few years all children should be getting 100%. On the test my DS got 64% so that put him well above the 'expected' result for the yr 3 students etc. You are encouraged to speak with your child's teacher to talk about the results and I was going to ask about that particular point. Plus TD, with you being in a different state, maybe there were some children in VIC who did get those questions right that the NSW kids didn't depending on when they were taught it in the classroom kwim?