Victoria’s state government has ordered a review of the Exam Assessment Authority, following errors on VCE sample exams.
This comes despite the body insisting the mistakes in sample tests did not compromise final exams.
Education Minister Ben Carroll announced that a full external review of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority will be introduced, after students sitting their Victorian Certificate of Education exams were able to view hidden questions on sample papers.
The assessment authority uploads sample exam papers each year to familiarise students with details of the test, but it emerged this week that Victorian students could spot hidden questions.
The authority’s chief executive Kylie White said on Thursday no exams had been compromised.
In 2023, multiple typographical errors appeared in general maths and chemistry exams, and six students received an incorrect Chinese language exam.
Five questions from the 2022 maths exams also contained errors.