Exam board AQA apologises following A Level exam mistake
The exam board AQA has apologised to pupils for including an unanswerable question in its A Level chemistry paper.
According to TES, pupils sitting the exam this afternoon were told to leave out one of the questions in the paper.
Schools were also contacted about the mistake before the exam to make sure that pupils were aware that a question should be missed out.
However, some pupils took to Twitter to claim that they were only notified about the error in the middle of the exam and some admit that they were not told at all.
Pupils will be awarded the two marks from the question, which has had to be discounted.
An AQA spokesperson said: "This shouldn't have happened and we are sorry it did.
"Each of our exam papers goes through a lot of checks, but unfortunately errors can very occasionally slip through.
"When they do, we always make sure that students don't lose out. But one error is still one too many, so we are carrying out a detailed investigation".
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