Hard just got impossible!
11,000 pupils were asked to face a impossible GCSE exam on Monday, eventough the vital booklet hadn't yet arrived at the schools.
On Monday 22nd May 11,000 pupils faced an impossible GCSE exam due to the fault of the AQA exam board. A humanites paper about a series of sources including cartoons, photos and written extracts was taken by pupils even though the main booklet hadn't been sent.
A teacher, who wishes to remain anonymous said that the questions would have been "absouletly impossible" without this booklet. The AQA has apologised to the pupils at more than 150 schools and colleges in England. The students had been revising for the exam with their own booklets yet weren't allowed to bring them to the examination room ,because they were highlighted and marked.
Liberal Democrat education spokeswomen Sarah Teather said last night: "What has happened is disgraceful. Exam boards need to get their acts together." This has been the first major glitch in 2006.
We spoke to a Sir William Borlase's student to ask how they would have felt if it had been their exam." I would of felt fustrated and angry at all the effort I had put in. I am appauled at how unorganised the AQA have been."
A teacher, who wishes to remain anonymous said that the questions would have been "absouletly impossible" without this booklet. The AQA has apologised to the pupils at more than 150 schools and colleges in England. The students had been revising for the exam with their own booklets yet weren't allowed to bring them to the examination room ,because they were highlighted and marked.
Liberal Democrat education spokeswomen Sarah Teather said last night: "What has happened is disgraceful. Exam boards need to get their acts together." This has been the first major glitch in 2006.
We spoke to a Sir William Borlase's student to ask how they would have felt if it had been their exam." I would of felt fustrated and angry at all the effort I had put in. I am appauled at how unorganised the AQA have been."