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| AQA admits to making error in physics exam - students despair on Twitter | AQA admits to making error in physics exam - students despair on Twitter |
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| The AQA exam board has admitted to making a mistake with a question in an exam paper which some students said was ‘impossible to answer’. | The AQA exam board has admitted to making a mistake with a question in an exam paper which some students said was ‘impossible to answer’. |
| Pupils from about 1,200 schools and colleges across the UK were left scratching their heads after a typo in their physics A-level exam led to them complaining. | Pupils from about 1,200 schools and colleges across the UK were left scratching their heads after a typo in their physics A-level exam led to them complaining. |
| An unfortunate student who sat the exam, Jack Leyland, described the error as “annoying” because it was “in a paper that already had awkward twists on usually familiar questions.” | An unfortunate student who sat the exam, Jack Leyland, described the error as “annoying” because it was “in a paper that already had awkward twists on usually familiar questions.” |
| A spokesman for the AQA tried to clear up the confusion post-exam and said: “We meant to ask students to compare a 150 kN(c) resistor – not a 150 N(c) resistor as it said in the paper – to a 300 kN(c) resistor. | A spokesman for the AQA tried to clear up the confusion post-exam and said: “We meant to ask students to compare a 150 kN(c) resistor – not a 150 N(c) resistor as it said in the paper – to a 300 kN(c) resistor. |
| “At this stage, it looks as though most students haven’t been affected by this, but we’re letting our examiners know and will make sure it doesn’t affect students’ grades.” | “At this stage, it looks as though most students haven’t been affected by this, but we’re letting our examiners know and will make sure it doesn’t affect students’ grades.” |
| Although the AQA said the question could still be answered – despite the way it was worded, some students on Twitter begged to differ last night as the hashtag #AQAPhysics began to trend: | Although the AQA said the question could still be answered – despite the way it was worded, some students on Twitter begged to differ last night as the hashtag #AQAPhysics began to trend: |
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