VIC: Old fashioned method finishes off VCE result delivery

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-1998
VIC: Old fashioned method finishes off VCE result delivery

MELBOURNE, Dec 14 AAP - More than 70,000 Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) students
now know their final results, including those who chose or were forced to use the
old-fashioned but reliable method of finding them out - the mail.

Since 6am on Friday, 31,834 students had called the results hotline to hear the news, 506
students had called the international results service and 3,643 had registered on the Internet
to find out, the states Board of Studies said.

The rest of the 70,220 students eligible to receive results this year should have found
them in the letterbox today.

"The Board of Studies congratulates all students who have successfully completed their VCE
in 1998 and is proud to be bringing this good news to them before students in other states,"
board chief executive officer Professor Sam Ball said in a statement.

Despite the provision in recent years of electronic methods of finding out results, a
significant number of students still favoured the more traditional method, Professor Ball
said.

"For many students nothing beats a worry-free weekend at the beach (before facing the
results) and a personalised delivery from the postie," he said.

He said 93.4 per cent of students eligible to receive their VCE in 1998 had been
successful, with a 94.8 per cent completion rate for females and a 91.7 per cent completion
rate for males.

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