A skills test to weed out student teachers who can't multiply two numbers or read a simple graph is failing to stop them graduating as universities side step the system. The Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) is a compulsory test that was brought in to remove incompetent student teachers from the system before they graduate and enter classrooms. Sample question to help students prepare for the literacy and numeracy test. The test is meant to guarantee that student teachers have literacy and numeracy levels equivalent to the top 30 percent of the adult population in Australia. Student teachers have three chances to sit the LANTITE test administered by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2019 01:07 UTC