The UK’s exam bodies were again under scrutiny after an AS Level Media Studies exam paper featured an ‘impossible’ question requiring basic knowledge of the 7 times tables. Instead of the planned question ‘Discuss the need for media regulation,’ students were asked to solve the equation 7y = 63.
Posted: Jun 11th, 2011
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Tragedy struck second-year undergraduate Harvey Owen today, when his beloved grandmother Ivy again passed away for the fourth time just days before the start of her grandson’s critical end-of-term exams.
Posted: Aug 28th, 2010
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A group of teenagers shocked locals by going straight home after taking their final exams in Bedfordshire today. Residents looked on in horror as the group walked quietly through the streets in ones or twos, leaving enough room on the pavement for people to pass them by without having to step into the road, before dispersing to their homes.
Posted: Jul 1st, 2009
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Posted: Jun 21st, 2008
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