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June 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Laura Clark
14:16 EST, 13 June 2012
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19:55 EST, 13 June 2012
The security of public exams was thrown into doubt last night after it emerged three A-level papers due to be taken next week were mistakenly sent to schools abroad.
Fifty thousand A-level maths papers will now need to be pulped amid concerns the content may have leaked out.
Copies of the paper were mixed in with batches of past papers sent out to schools in Egypt which requested them for pupils to use in revision sessions.
Students sitting their A level examinations will now sit a revised paper after copies of the exam were mistakenly shipped to Egypt
Two further A-level papers – in
chemistry and biology – will be taken as normal next week even though
they were also sent to the Egyptian schools in error.
Edexcel, the exam board at the centre
of the blunder, insisted the security risk to the two science papers had
been contained.
But it admitted it could not be sure the maths paper
‘remained secure’ and will instead set a replacement paper, which it had
ready as a contingency.
Teachers will be told to destroy the
affected paper – an A2 exam for pupils in the second year of A-levels –
but Edexcel admitted there was a risk some pupils could still be given
the original paper.
The error brings fresh embarrassment
to Britain’s exam system, which was plagued with blunders during last
summer’s GCSEs and A-levels.
Some 100,000 students were affected by
mistakes found in 12 separate papers.
An Edexcel A-level mathematics paper from a previous year, similar to the one that was accidentally distributed to schools in Egypt
They included printing errors, wrong answers in multiple choice papers and questions that were impossible to answer.
Around 39,000 pupils in Britain will sit A-level maths on Thursday next week, with a further 11,000 candidates abroad.
Copies of the compromised paper had already been delivered to 1,500 schools in sealed packets, which must be kept locked in a safe.
The British Council, which administers A-levels and GCSEs for Edexcel in dozens of countries, admitted it was responsible for the error.
It is understood to have sent the ‘live’ maths paper in error to 43 Cairo schools which had requested past papers for revision sessions.
Copies of the compromised paper, which 39,000 pupils were due to sit this Thursday, had already been delivered to thousands of schools
Although most were retrieved intact, in a few schools the packages had been opened. The error was reported to Edexcel, which sent a team to investigate.
Chemistry and biology papers were sent to a smaller number of schools but retrieved in time.
A spokesman for Edexcel said: ‘While we have well-established procedures in place to replace and deliver the paper, and to contact every single school, replacing a paper at such short notice does mean that there remains a small risk of a small number of students sitting the original paper.
‘Should this happen, we have clear protocols to make sure that all students’ papers are marked fairly and everyone receives the grade that they deserve.
‘We are confident that no student will be unfairly advantaged or disadvantaged. While there is no firm evidence that the paper has been shared with those unauthorised to see it, we believe our decision is in the best interests of schools and students.
‘We are concerned by how this breach has taken place. We will be conducting a thorough investigation, alongside the British Council, to understand how the incident occurred, and to ensure that every precaution is taken in future.’
Mark Stephens, director of the British Council in Egypt, said: ‘We take the security of our exams operation extremely seriously and deeply regret this error. We acted as soon as we became aware and, as a result, we can be certain that no exam candidates will either benefit or be disadvantaged.
‘We deliver 80,000 exams in Egypt every year — this has never happened before, and we’re already taking steps to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.’
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” OMG i got my chemistry A-level exam next week!!is anyone from Egypt in here!???please let me know ASAP!! i don’t want much,all i want is the mark scheme plz:)))
– kourosh, gloucester, 13/6/2012 23:28″
Well it’s just as well that you’re not taking English; txtspk, can’t punctuate; you’d get an “F” which in my day meant FAIL. Nowadays the little cherubs aren’t allowed to fail as is may damage their precious “self esteem”. Failure is now termed “deferred success. As for your Chemistry exam, I would bet serious money that my Chemistry A-Level from 1972 is far harder and deeper than yours, the current A-Level is about as hard as my O-Level. Oh yes, one more thing…… LOL!!!!!!!!!
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How did they cope when I did my A-Levels in the early 1980s. No internet, no mobile phones… Need I go on. They call it progress, I call it incompetence.
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I was too stupid to pass my AS levels, but this must be incredibly annoying for those students.
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A Levels should be abolished, I failed mine so why should others have something I don’t?
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DAMMIT! I could have got the questions for my Biology exam next week….!!! So so funny!
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Mistake or yet another deliberate blow to the education system?
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These A level exam papers were inadvertently sent to schools abroad, but that is not the embarrassing thing, it turns out that nearly every pupil in these schools passed the tests, So what you ask???? They were primary schools.
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OMG i got my chemistry A-level exam next week!!is anyone from Egypt in here!???please let me know ASAP!! i don’t want much,all i want is the mark scheme plz:)))
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As a student doing my a2 a levels, I find this damn hilarious
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I would love to know what the checking procedures are to ensure examinations papers and questions are fit for purpose. They should be checked and cross checked for errors or ambiguity prior to being placed before students.
Incidentally AQA Geography A’level paper today contained some ambiguous and confusing questions! Clearly no-one checked this paper for clarity!
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