Nearly a quarter of all students enrolled in a core subject in Melbourne Law School’s prestigious juris doctor program elected to sit a second supplementary exam because they feared their marks were compromised after a litany of failures in the administration of the first one.

Students who sat the first property law exam said they were harassed by “very rude and unpolite” invigilators who gave different sets of rules for what students could and couldn’t do during reading time. Then the exam software crashed.