GCSE Music papers had the answers written on the back

[Xendance]

Thousands of teenagers are facing uncertainty over their exams after a GCSE music paper was found to have some of the answers on the back.

The paper - taken across England - involved pupils listening to pieces of music and then identifying composers and styles of music.

The OCR exam board (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations) said pupils would not have to re-sit the exam.

It said the paper in question was one of four taken by GCSE music students.

The relevant question would account for no more than 5% of the marks on that paper, the board added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7414129.stm

Bahaha, I love news like this which embarrases comapnies like the OCR. Also, did anyone hear about the "worlds dumbest criminal" who created videos of himself doing crimes and soon posted them on YouTube?

 

[Dekstar]

Good old British exam boards. **** them all.

 

[Omnomnick]

Haha, lucky students who got that extra 5% free

 

[Laivasse]

Good old British exam boards. **** them all.

Amen brutha. Another institution that champions the values of corruption and incompetence that we're so good at nowadays.

Thing is, a screw up like this is so obvious that it's easy to call them out on. But see what happens when you get a question so badly worded that it's impossible to know if you're answering it correctly. You'll just be told to shut up and get on with it.

Haha, lucky students who got that extra 5% free

Possibly.

Another way of looking at it could be this: since all of the kids in the country will get the extra 5%, they can pretty much discount that part of the exam - no one really benefits because everyone benefits. So what happens is that all the time spent revising that question, or all the time spent on that question in the exam by kids who hadn't yet noticed the answers, was time just chucked down the toilet. :|