LANA for Years 5 and 7 begins today

18,276 Year 5 and 17,903 Year 7 students will be undertaking the Literacy and Numeracy Assessment or LANA today.

Minister for Education Rosy Akbar says this assessment is a diagnostic tool that assists teachers to ascertain the level and type of interventions to assist learners to improve their literacy and numeracy.

Akbar has urged all Year 5 and Year 7 students to make the most of this opportunity and to prepare well.

There are 723 centers in Fiji where this assessment is instituted.

The Education Ministry will dispatch the e‑version of the Literacy and Numeracy Assessment papers to 360 schools while maritime and hard to reach locations have been dispatched with the hard copy version.

The reports on individual student results can be accessed after the formal release of exam results through Fiji Education Management Information System website www.femis.gov.fj

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