00:00It's an exam problem that keeps on growing.
00:05The education minister has admitted 56 out of this year's 116 VCE exams were impacted
00:11by what's being labelled human error.
00:14He says the department didn't follow its own protocols, meaning if they went looking
00:18for them, students could find the questions hidden in sample documents.
00:22When this first came out, we were told exam questions had been rewritten and that everything
00:27was fine.
00:30Examinations for the VCE this year have not been compromised.
00:34But everything wasn't fine.
00:36The head of the examination body has since resigned, and while the exam questions were
00:40rewritten, some of them were not rewritten enough.
00:44Sometimes only a word or two was changed.
00:46I was given reassurances that the exam questions that had inadvertently been released and uploaded
00:54with the instruction cover sheets had been rewritten.
00:57And that has proven to be completely unsatisfactory.
01:02The government wants to make sure this year's results are still as fair as possible.
01:06So here's what they plan to do.
01:08They're going to be looking for anomalies.
01:10And if a student does particularly well on the leaked questions, and not nearly as well
01:14on questions that were not leaked, that student's paper will be reviewed.
01:19If the overall results for a leaked question look out of place, that question will be taken
01:23off of every student's final score, even those who did the right thing.
01:27The marking is the starting point.
01:29We see if there's anomalies in the distribution coming out of that.
01:32If there aren't, that's fine, we'll just proceed.
01:34If there are, we'll follow those through and look at the options to ensure that we give
01:38the fairest possible result.
01:39The minister says students can still expect to get their marks on time.
01:43The government will face its own assessment, with an independent root and branch review
01:47of the exam process next year.
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