00:00Year 11 and 12 exams can be an anxious time, and for some students in Tasmania, this year's
00:07exam period has been even more stressful than usual.
00:10There have been mistakes in six exams, ranging from minor typos to data errors to mistakes
00:16in stimulus material that made questions harder or impossible to answer.
00:21The mistakes were in the Physics, Food and Nutrition, Chemistry, Biology, English and
00:25Accounting exams.
00:28Students and parents have reported that the mistakes rattled some students, threw them
00:31off for the rest of their exam, or in some cases, meant they wasted time on those questions
00:36when they could have moved on to other answers.
00:38One teacher told the Education Union the Food and Nutrition exam was borderline disgraceful.
00:43I think we're all disappointed, the staff in the office are disappointed, obviously
00:48the exam setters and the critics are disappointed, and it's certainly not something that we want
00:53to happen.
00:54For some exams, supervisors were able to tell the students about the errors during the exam,
00:59but some other mistakes were only identified near the end of exam time.
01:03So then the marking teams will look at those and determine how they might deal with those
01:08questions.
01:09So it may be that that question is not counted, or it may be that students who've attempted
01:16that question, their answers are looked at slightly differently.
01:22Exams are reviewed by a team of critics and then proofread before students sit them.
01:26We will look at that both internally and then externally to make sure that the processes
01:33that we've put in place are the right ones.
01:36Tasmania isn't the only state with exam stuff-ups this year.
01:40The head of Victoria's exam authority has resigned after some exam questions were inadvertently
01:45posted online before the exam period there.
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