Post: AS-Level Exam gaff!
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06-06-2011, 01:58 PM
#1
Como
Here's to Loonyology!
Pupils taking an AS-level exam have been given a question that could not be answered - the second such problem this summer.
The latest unanswerable question was in a business studies paper set by the AQA exam board.
A teacher voiced fears that pupils had wasted so much time trying to answer the unanswerable question they had not had enough time for other questions.
The AQA exam board said it was "very sorry about the error in the paper".
"However, we do have a robust process for ensuring that none of our students will be disadvantaged as a result our mistake," said a statement from the exam board.
The paper was taken by pupils in England, Wales and Nothern Ireland.
My opinion:
I think it's another gaff on behalf of our exam board, who in recent years seem to have made it their hobby to make stressed youngsters, sitting exams, even more stressed by making them revise for a question which they don't even need to answer. It's inexplicable, and a massively terrible oversight on behalf of the exam board.
The ammount of people that work for this company, and the processes that each paper must go through before it is put in to press, must surely have picked up on a gaff like this? Obviously not. Nice to know everyone's doing their jobs properly.
i wanna know what the question was lol
06-06-2011, 02:58 PM
#4
Stub Hero
Laying low low low
Originally posted by Como
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Pupils taking an AS-level exam have been given a question that could not be answered - the second such problem this summer.
The latest unanswerable question was in a business studies paper set by the AQA exam board.
A teacher voiced fears that pupils had wasted so much time trying to answer the unanswerable question they had not had enough time for other questions.
The AQA exam board said it was "very sorry about the error in the paper".
"However, we do have a robust process for ensuring that none of our students will be disadvantaged as a result our mistake," said a statement from the exam board.
The paper was taken by pupils in England, Wales and Nothern Ireland.
My opinion:
I think it's another gaff on behalf of our exam board, who in recent years seem to have made it their hobby to make stressed youngsters, sitting exams, even more stressed by making them revise for a question which they don't even need to answer. It's inexplicable, and a massively terrible oversight on behalf of the exam board.
The ammount of people that work for this company, and the processes that each paper must go through before it is put in to press, must surely have picked up on a gaff like this? Obviously not. Nice to know everyone's doing their jobs properly.
Pupils taking an AS-level exam have been given a question that could not be answered - the second such problem this summer.
The latest unanswerable question was in a business studies paper set by the AQA exam board.
A teacher voiced fears that pupils had wasted so much time trying to answer the unanswerable question they had not had enough time for other questions.
The AQA exam board said it was "very sorry about the error in the paper".
"However, we do have a robust process for ensuring that none of our students will be disadvantaged as a result our mistake," said a statement from the exam board.
The paper was taken by pupils in England, Wales and Nothern Ireland.
My opinion:
I think it's another gaff on behalf of our exam board, who in recent years seem to have made it their hobby to make stressed youngsters, sitting exams, even more stressed by making them revise for a question which they don't even need to answer. It's inexplicable, and a massively terrible oversight on behalf of the exam board.
The ammount of people that work for this company, and the processes that each paper must go through before it is put in to press, must surely have picked up on a gaff like this? Obviously not. Nice to know everyone's doing their jobs properly.
I answered this paper mate lmao, don't think I had any trouble particularly with any of the questions - it was quite an easy paper lol. And although it is a major cock up for them obviously, the question was only worth 3 marks out of an 80 mark paper and there were about 4 15-20 mark questions in the paper so its not a major issue.
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