SA students to take first electronic exam

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published November 7, 2018

South Australian students will make history when they become the first in the nation to take an electronic Year 12 end-of-year exam.

Nearly 2000 students will sit the computerised English Literary Studies assessment on Wednesday.

South Australian Certificate of Education board chief ...

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