[popsical]

Is there going to be one this year?

[brimstone]

Well, my usual future predicting skills seem to have stopped working today, so sadly I cannot tell you.

[thefin]

(Original post by brimstone)
Well, my usual future predicting skills seem to have stopped working today, so sadly I cannot tell you.

mine have too! what a coincedence. this is too weird...

[jonjoe]

has ther been any in the past few yrs? or at all lol

[Chubasco]

And since the people that do leak the papers wouldn't want their plans to be discovered, they'd hardly admit to it on a public forum.....

[Talya]

(Original post by Crazy_emz)
And since the people that do leak the papers wouldn't want their plans to be discovered, they'd hardly admit to it on a public forum.....

Don't you remember the Edexcel Maths fiasco?

[a_man_1066]

Is there going to be one this year?

You make it sound like some regular event, like they're allowed to leak 1 a year or something...which subject will it be?

If you don't know, how the hell are we all meant to know. Unless someone here works for the examining board and is going to reveal the leak - in which case they're not going to say, are they?

Hmmm... I'll just check AQA, OCR and Edexcel's websites, I'm sur eit will be on their 'calendar of events'

And yes, I do remember that Maths paper fiasco

[ArVi]

(Original post by Talya)
Don't you remember the Edexcel Maths fiasco?

When did this happen?

[Revd. Mike]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stu...Media_Coverage

TSR is famous! Lol.

[CalculusMan]

Could someone explain more about this maths fiasco?

[PQ]

(Original post by popsical)
Is there going to be one this year?

If there is then it should be caught before any exams.

The exam boards have all been given the log in details for http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/member.php?u=21882 and regularly get people who know the contents of exams to look through TSRs threads. If they spot anything dodgy they report it using the post report system and because they're using that account we know who they are and remove the posts from view immediately.

[7589200]

Even if its say a question they asked before or a mock paper, and the question is used again or something? Not that I have anything to do with this, im just curious. O and can someone explain more about the Maths Fiasco?

[brimstone]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stu...Media_Coverage
Read that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3834291.stm
Or that

[ArVi]

[Mustard-man]

(Original post by PQ)
The exam boards have all been given the log in details for http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/member.php?u=21882 and regularly get people who know the contents of exams to look through TSRs threads. If they spot anything dodgy they report it using the post report system and because they're using that account we know who they are and remove the posts from view immediately.

Ingenious!

(Original post by Matt_2K)
Could someone explain more about this maths fiasco?

There have been tons.... For example, there was one about the online examiners getting paid a bonus if they mark the scripts fast enough. Because it is done online, the time it takes for them to submit the marked scripts can be monitored. If they mark quicker, then they are more proned to mistakes.

This was by the daily mail, therefore could be slight mis-leading

[Comp_Genius]

(Original post by PQ)
If there is then it should be caught before any exams.

The exam boards have all been given the log in details for http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/member.php?u=21882 and regularly get people who know the contents of exams to look through TSRs threads. If they spot anything dodgy they report it using the post report system and because they're using that account we know who they are and remove the posts from view immediately.

Isn't that a breach of confidentiality?

[PQ]

(Original post by darkenergy)
Isn't that a breach of confidentiality?

Having exam boards tell us if anyones posted leaked questions on our website so we can remove them?

How is that a breach of confidentiality? (apart from the fact that the exam boards would be confirming privately to the mods (who're beyond A levels - in the case of some of us a LONG way beyond A levels ) the contents of future exams)

[RK]

(Original post by Revd. Mike)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stu...Media_Coverage

TSR is famous! Lol.

Good to see the wikipedia article I created (and which has been added to and amended by Pig, amongst others) is getting some use.

I was pleased to find out about the media coverage of the site with this exam leak the other year just in order to give the wikipedia article a very strong argument for existing...not that the site without the media coverage isn't notable enough to start with, but past articles had been deleted I believe, because they didn't prove the site to be notable.

[Comp_Genius]

(Original post by PQ)
Having exam boards tell us if anyones posted leaked questions on our website so we can remove them?

How is that a breach of confidentiality? (apart from the fact that the exam boards would be confirming privately to the mods (who're beyond A levels - in the case of some of us a LONG way beyond A levels ) the contents of future exams)

Nope. it's their accessibility to our private details, to which we've given TSR unconditionally as an act of unlimited trust.

Then, why would someone who's done their A-levels want to acquire exam questions?

[RK]

(Original post by darkenergy)
Nope. it's their accessibility to our private details, to which we've given TSR unconditionally as an act of unlimited trust.

Then, why would someone who's done their A-levels want to acquire exam questions?

Who has said anything about letting the exam people have acess to our accounts and private info?