Carroll said the former head of the NSW Education Standards Authority,Dr John Bennett,was reviewingprevious errors. Carroll has been briefed on the initial findings and committed to releasing the full review when it is delivered next month.
The education minister asked the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authorityto review its processes last November,after a series of “stuff ups” in VCE exams that he said should never have occurred.
Thousands of general and specialist maths students wereawarded bonus points due to errors in last year’s exams. A number of exams also had confusing typos,and six students were given the wrong Chinese language test.
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Carroll said he had also refused the assessment authority’s board a pay rise as a result of the errors.
“I thought that was an important signal,not only to the authority but to the Victorian community and all VCE students how seriously I take those errors that occurred last year,” he told ABC radio.
Mistakes in the 2022 maths exam triggered a number of investigations,which found no “major mathematical errors”,but identified “room for improvement” in language and grammar.