Education Minister Ben Carroll and Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority staff are set to be grilled in state parliament as the opposition pushes for the exam leaks to be referred to the Ombudsman.
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority has apologised to students for the first time over the biggest leak of VCE exam material in decades.
After countless hours prepping for final exams, student Kayla Wonder has demanded VCAA rectify its question leak blunder that “compromised” the Business exam — even suggesting a scoring method fix of her own.
A change to the design of VCE exams is believed to be behind one of the biggest education bungles to rock the state, with every single exam on the 2024 schedule now caught up in the scandal.
Yet another major blunder to the VCE exam process has been uncovered, with schools sent the wrong recordings to play for students at the upcoming Music Performance examinations.
Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has said there will be a “full independent root-and-branch review” into the VCE exam blunder after he came under fire when conceding he knew about the debacle a month ago.
Victoria’s VCE exams crisis has deepened as more cheat sheets were discovered and up to half of one subject’s exam was available online to students beforehand. See all the hidden questions here.
The latest VCE exams fiasco has surely left Victoria’s students and teachers with little faith in the compromised testing process and the body running it.
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority has admitted to a catastrophic blunder that has raised concerns over the integrity of the exam process.
Many Victorian government schools are at crisis point with much-needed upgrades years behind schedule and more delays expected.
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