Starting in 2016, all new graduates in Australia intending to become primary or secondary school teachers will have to sit a literacy and numeracy test. To pass, test-writers will have to show that they are in the top 30 percentile of the general population. The test covers reading comprehension, grammar and syntax, punctuation, spelling, word usage and text organization. There are critics of the new test, of course. Some argue that it puts potential teachers with dyslexia or who have English as a Second Language will be at a disadvantage while others argue that rather than this new test, teachers should just write the IELTS exam.
Want to be sure that you would make the grade? Check out some of the sample questions here.