The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) produces an individual NAPLAN report for each student, which shows their performance in each of the NAPLAN assessment areas against four proficiency levels. More information about the proficiency levels is available at https://nap.edu.au/naplan.

ACARA has provided a score for each of the NAPLAN reading, writing and numeracy assessment areas that corresponds with the reading, writing and numeracy standards required to be awarded a WACE. For each assessment area, students who are at or exceed the determined/required score are considered to have prequalified for that standard and hence do not need to sit the corresponding component of the OLNA.

Further information about determining student prequalification from a NAPLAN individual student report is available in the OLNA Prequalification and Year 9 NAPLAN: Information for Parents/Carers and Schools brochure.

Students who achieved Band 8 or above in any of the reading, writing and numeracy assessment areas of Year 9 NAPLAN are considered to have prequalified for that standard, and hence do not need to sit the corresponding component of the OLNA.

Due to privacy reasons, the Authority does not have access to other states’ NAPLAN results.

Therefore schools must email olna@scsa.wa.edu.au a scanned copy of a student’s complete Year 9 NAPLAN individual student report to the Authority.

Once the submitted report has been processed, the school will be emailed outlining whether the student has prequalified for one or more components.