Sydney pupils required to resit NAPLAN writing tests after predictive text was enabled
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that pupils at Waverley College and Kambala had to repeat NAPLAN writing tests after Apple predictive text and spellcheck were inadvertently available. Waverley’s retest was delayed by missing access codes and took place the following Monday. The report does not establish that any pupil intentionally cheated.
- AI system
- Apple predictive text
- Apple
- Occurred
- Mar 2025
- Reported
- 18 March 2025
- Event location
- Australia
- What the AI did
- Relation unknown
- Reported harm
- Educational Harm
- Whose AI use
- An institution’s AI use
- Setting
- Education
- Evidence
- AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
- 1 claim: 1 reported. 1 open question
- People reported harmed
- Not reliably quantifiable from the sources
Reported harm
Pupils were required to repeat a writing assessment; Waverley also reported a delayed retest.
What remains unknown
- Number affected, actual use of suggestions, and any effect on scores are unknown. Direct person relation remains unknown because availability alone does not show a particular AI communication or action.
What the evidence supports
AI involvement: reported. Article identifies Apple predictive text as AI-assisted, but does not identify the model or any particular generated answer.
1 claim: 1 reported. What the statuses mean
Reported Pupils at two Sydney schools were required to retake writing tests after predictive text was enabled; Waverley’s retest was delayed before being completed.
Causal attribution. Institutional response to availability of an AI-assisted feature. Actual generated answers or deliberate student misuse are not established.
- smh.com.au(opens in new tab) supports · English
Opening two paragraphs; Waverley spokesperson paragraphs describing enabled predictive text, missing profile codes and Monday completion.
Sources
1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.
- The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sydney students forced to take the NAPLAN test again, 18 March 2025(opens in new tab)
s1 · smh.com.au · Journalism · English · Inspected · Primary
How the sources were read, and where the events happened
Event countries: Australia. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.
Tests at two named Sydney schools. Pupils’ residence or nationality is not established.
Reviewed for publication 2026-09-29: School-attributed account of a required retest; no accusation of cheating is adopted.
People reported harmed in this case
Not reliably quantifiable from the sources
No reliable number of affected pupils is given. School counts and nationwide test totals are not people-harmed counts.
Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.
Cite this case
Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.
APA
NOPE. (2026). Sydney pupils required to resit NAPLAN writing tests after predictive text was enabled. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-sydney-naplan-resit-predictive-text-enabled
BibTeX
@misc{2025_sydney_naplan_resit_predictive_text_enabled,
title = {Sydney pupils required to resit NAPLAN writing tests after predictive text was enabled},
author = {NOPE},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {AI incidents},
url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-sydney-naplan-resit-predictive-text-enabled}
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