VCAA says material ‘inadvertently included’ after it emerged students found hidden text on seemingly blank pages
Victorian premier Jacinta Allan says the error is ‘really frustrating for those parents and teachers and students’ who have been working hard ahead of the VCE exams.Victorian premier Jacinta Allan says the error is ‘really frustrating for those parents and teachers and students’ who have been working hard ahead of the VCE exams.
“All students can have confidence in completing their exams today, knowing that their examinations are of a high quality and have been quality assured.” “Anyone who knows a year 12 or a VCE student, they might have one in their family, they just know how hard those young people work … to get to this point of the school year to sit their exams,” she told reporters on Thursday.
It comes after the government was forced to conduct a review into errors in last year’s exams, which included five mistakes in maths tests and one in chemistry.The review, conducted by Dr John Bennett, recommended implementing more suitably qualified academics on maths exam developments panels and stronger examination review processes.
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