[britchick]

"A maths A-level exam paper due to be taken next week has been scrapped because of fears of a security breach.

Edexcel says that its maths paper due to be taken on 21 June will now be substituted by another paper.

There were fears that copies of the planned maths paper had been made accidentally available to schools preparing for exams in Egypt."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18425283

I don't know if this has been discussed on TSR yet, had anybody heard about it?

[britchick]

I believe it was the C4 exam.

[ColdKant]

kind of makes you wonder how many times this happened really and been covered up

[Rough Silk]

I guarantee the reserve paper is an absolute monster

[The Polymath]

(Original post by britchick)
"A maths A-level exam paper due to be taken next week has been scrapped because of fears of a security breach.

Edexcel says that its maths paper due to be taken on 21 June will now be substituted by another paper.

There were fears that copies of the planned maths paper had been made accidentally available to schools preparing for exams in Egypt."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18425283

I don't know if this has been discussed on TSR yet, had anybody heard about it?

Old news buddy (news on TSR travels faster than a man to the door when a takeaway arrives)

I'm doing alright in papers in terms of difficulty, the problem is I make stupid mistakes like mixing up fractions, confusing integration and differentation (e.g. writing dy/dx and then integrating...) and this loses me trillions of marks. Like a boss

[britchick]

I thought it may have been! I mean, this is TSR after all
I don't take Maths myself but was interested as to what people thought of the story (if anything!)

[Tench]

(Original post by JohnSimmons)
I guarantee the reserve paper is an absolute monster

There's a good chance, though, that the reserve paper will be made up of recycled questions from older years so it could be easier

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...

[Oliverfk93916]

Haha recycled questions wouldn't be bad. Nah i'm sure they have pro's working as we speak to make the hardest questions possible.

[Uzzy~Sheikh]

Edexcel clearly states that no student will be affected due to the change of paper. The substituted paper is of the sae difficulty level as the one which was scrapped!

[Rough Silk]

(Original post by Tench)
There's a good chance, though, that the reserve paper will be made up of recycled questions from older years so it could be easier

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...

I'm guessing that the reserve paper will be some relic from the old days of real tough C4 papers. It's been saved up for years just to unleash itself on me

[paullys]

Although there is a chance that the statistics paper was released I believe that C4 was the one. There are just too many students around the world who would like to solve that stupid paper before the original examination. The replacement papers are usually much more difficult than the first one's. It drives me crazy!! But let's see...