VCE 2025 LIVE: Victorian Year 12 students to learn of exam results, ATAR scores at 7am

Things don’t always go to plan, and some students were mistakenly told they were eligible for a scholarship at Melbourne University because of an administrative error at the state’s tertiary admissions centre.

Young people applying for equity scholarships at the prestigious institution were told last week that they were eligible for the scheme to study next year.

But the university has had to write again to applicants, many of whom are finishing year 12 this year, to tell them they were actually not eligible and they were “misclassified” by the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC).

News of the bureaucratic error comes as tens of thousands of students across the state wait to receive their VCE results and university admission scores (ATAR) today.

A source close to the matter, who is not authorised to speak publicly, said the numbers might run into the thousands.

The university said it was working with the admissions centre to support the incorrectly identified students, but that no offers of scholarships had been made.

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As more than 92,000 VCE students wait for their results, expectations are high that many will get top marks in their subjects.

Since the end of exams, which had more students than ever sit at least one, 350,000 papers have been marked .

VCE physics chief assessor Andrew Hansen and Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority executive director Kelly Jarvis at the VCE exam processing centre in Coburg.Credit: Chris Hopkins

When papers left the exam halls in late October and November, they were securely delivered to a processing site in Coburg, where casual staff scanned and uploaded most papers to a digital system – except for several dozen subjects that are yet to make this transition and are still marked by hand.

A small army of 5182 current and former teachers and academics then got to work assessing 13 million answers to questions across 112 subjects.

Here’s more on how the results are marked, while students wait for theirs.

Good morning and welcome to The Age’s live blog for VCE results day 2025.

I’m Caroline Schelle, and I’ll be helming our live coverage this morning as Victorian year 12s receive their long-awaited VCE results and ATARs.

Marks will be released at 7am, and with the rest of The Age’s education team, I’ll cover the results and reactions throughout the day.

Best of luck to those students waiting for their results! Our fingers are crossed for you all!

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