On Monday morning 11000 pupils sat down to take their humanity GCSE exam, just to find that the vital booklet, which they needed to complete the exam was missing. The people behind this appalling mistake was the AQA exam board, the booklets were provided a few months earlier, but students were forbidden to be taking into the exam room, as they were annotated.
Although the exam was technically impossible without the booklet, pupils were still made to sit the test, even though their marks were certain to be below average. Even though the AQA said that they would take this "into account" when marking the papers, it still means that they could not understand the questions in the paper as they were all based on these booklets, which were not present at the time. This means that pupils would have had to work purely from memory of the booklets, which they would never be able to remember word for word.
Many pupils were thrown by this, as it was their first exam of the year, and having such a large mistake in their first exam has unsettled some for the rest of the GCSEs, this has got them out of their stride for the other exams. The AQA cannot really offer any solution to this problem and is simply advcing the students who took the exam to concentate on revising for the other GCSEs that are coming up, instead of dwelling on what has happpened, and they are deeply sorry for their mistake.