Victorian year 12 students' results will still be released on time despite a mass publishing error impacting an additional nine exams.
Deputy Premier Ben Carroll confirmed the total number of exams caught up in the blunder, which allowed some students to access questions prior to sitting, is now 65.
“We brought in the mathematicians, we brought in the chemistry experts. These examinations were written really well,” Mr Carroll said on Tuesday afternoon.
“What has let us down, the final hurdle, has been a publishing error. Now I want to get to the bottom of that, how it occurred, to make sure it never happens again.”
An expert advisory panel's review uncovered 69 students across five subjects showed "anomalous results" for questions that were accessible online.
Interim Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) chief executive Marcia Devlin said the correlation didn't mean those students had done anything wrong.
Instead, each was removed from standard study score calculation but would be awarded the marks they had achieved.
"There is no indication that any of these students accessed the examination material prior to sitting the exam," Dr Devlin said.
"None of these students were clustered by school or by any other relationship that could be determined, suggesting that there was no coordinated behaviour to access the published examination material."
The five subjects where anomalous student results were found were Business Management, Legal Studies, Product Design and Technologies, Philosophy and Visual Communication.
Despite the upheaval, Mr Carroll said all students' results would be released on December 12 as planned.
"Students have worked incredibly hard to get to this point and they can be assured the results they receive on Thursday are accurate, fair and reliable," Mr Carroll said.
"However, I also equally recognise that students deserved better, this should not have happened in the first place."
There were 116 exams sat in 2024, meaning more than half were affected by the publishing error.
