All the exam leaks the VCAA is refusing to release

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s handling of the leaks fiasco has drawn more angst from parents who are considering legal action. Check the full list of every leaked exam question in 56 compromised subjects.

The Herald Sun is publishing the full list of leaked exam questions because we believe students and teachers deserve to know how each of the exams were compromised in different ways.

The list includes leaked questions from 35 of the 56 affected exam, and include some leaks not yet detailed publicly, including Environmental Science, Hospitality VET and three new music subjects.

The VCAA has pulled the 2024 cover sheets from their website, which prohibits ongoing access to the leaked information.

It comes as VCE students who benefited by viewing leaked exam material have been told they will not lose marks, sparking concerns that those who did not access the leaks will be disadvantaged.

As fallout from the leaked questions from 56 VCE subjects by the exam authority continues, schools are preparing to support students when results are released next Thursday.

Under pressure from principals, teachers, parents and students, the interim CEO of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority Dr Marcia Devlin said no student who “achieved high marks in the affected exam questions” will lose marks as a result of the additional moderation process.

“No student will be marked down,” she told an online webinar audience of teachers less than a week from the release of the 2024 VCE results on December 12.

VCAA interim chief executive Marcia Devlin.

Dr Devlin and other education bureaucrats have consistently talked about ensuring no student was “advantaged” by the leaks.

But opposition education spokeswoman Jess Wilson said two months on from learning of this “debacle” there was yet to be an explanation of how no student would be disadvantaged.

“Students deserve certainty and a guarantee their hard-earned VCE results will not be jeopardised by Labor’s third consecutive compromised exam period,” she said.

Peninsula Grammar principal Stuart Johnston said while this assurance “might help those who got early access to the information, it’s not going to help others who didn’t, that’s for sure”.

“They are now going to feel they are not going to do as well,” he said.

He said students “who are affected in four in five of their subjects will be worrying about the impact on their overall mark”.

Peninsula Grammar principal Stuart Johnston says the assurance ‘might help those who got early access to the information’. Picture: iStock

One father of a student gearing up for legal action if his daughter misses out on a university scholarship said “there won’t be any indication on whether your ATAR was adjusted up or down and then they hope it gets swept under the carpet”.

“I really don’t think that people understand that every student will be affected because of the ranking system”.

Dr Devlin reiterated that the December 12 deadline would be met for results to be issued.

“I have absolute full confidence that the panel and the processes we have in place will ensure all students impacted by inadvertent early publication are assessed fairly,” she said.

Education Minister Ben Carroll refused to give an iron clad guarantee but said he had been given reassurances there would be no delays.

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