Well, it's not unusual for me an error with the articles and worksheets published here, but I don't have a team of proof readers to help me. Much more serious is the error in mathematics as the paper this year.
More than 6,000 students took the paper and the question with the highest number of brands was impossible to answer! The question that 8 brands of 72 is granted for the entire document. This meant that many students would have agonised about, wasting a lot of minutes in unsuccessfully trying to reach a correct answer.
A spokesman for the exam board said,
"We regret that there was a mistake ... and that our quality assurance procedures failed to identify this error.
"Because we have been alerted to this so early, we are able to take into account this error when the paper marker. We will also use this in the boundary rank. We have sent a letter to all schools and universities explain in more detail what we'll do.
"We once again apologize that this has happened."
Obviously some of the students think that this is a less than satisfactory result is as some would have spent a lot more than others on the question, leaving less time for the rest of the exam.
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