Edexcel disqualify students over C4 Leak

https://www.tes.com/news/level-maths-cheats-disqualified

what do you think? from what I heard it was much more widespread than they think...

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Reply 1

Kevin De Bruyne

Original post by Anon213

https://www.tes.com/news/level-maths-cheats-disqualified

what do you think? from what I heard it was much more widespread than they think...

Whoever you heard from that it is more widespread, encourage them to report it with evidence.

Reply 2

Risk08

Great to hear something tbh. Sounds like it's all under control. It's very difficult to get away with something like this so if there are some cheater who haven't been court it will have minimal effects.

Reply 3

_gcx

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Original post by Anon213

https://www.tes.com/news/level-maths-cheats-disqualified

what do you think? from what I heard it was much more widespread than they think...

Well, they'll have collated a lot more evidence than you have access to.

Reply 4

Anon213

Original post by Kevin De Bruyne

Whoever you heard from that it is more widespread, encourage them to report it with evidence.

There’s no evidence to be had, all I know is an individual from a local school had it aswell.. considering i’m aiming for an A*, this will affect the A* boundary so it’s concerning for me

Reply 5

Kevin De Bruyne

Original post by Anon213

There’s no evidence to be had, all I know is an individual from a local school had it aswell.. considering i’m aiming for an A*, this will affect the A* boundary so it’s concerning for me

But how do you know that?

Reply 6

unholysaint2022

Original post by Anon213

There’s no evidence to be had, all I know is an individual from a local school had it aswell.. considering i’m aiming for an A*, this will affect the A* boundary so it’s concerning for me

it wont affect boundaries, the spokesperson said so.

Reply 7

Risk08

Original post by Anon213

There’s no evidence to be had, all I know is an individual from a local school had it aswell.. considering i’m aiming for an A*, this will affect the A* boundary so it’s concerning for me

Please contact Edexcel with any information you have, no evidence or evidence. This is very serious if you actually have any kind of link to another student!

Reply 8

Anon213

Original post by Kevin De Bruyne

But how do you know that?

My friend from school’s friend apparently had it. I don’t know for sure of course but there’s no reason for someone to lie about that

Reply 9

lucieol

How do these people even get access to the papers? :s-smilie:

Reply 10

la flameee

Lool, it was way more than 30. Apparently it was international too.

Reply 11

Anon213

Original post by lucieol

How do these people even get access to the papers? :s-smilie:

probably leaked through a dodgy exam centre officer i guess?

Reply 12

Anon213

Original post by la flameee

Lool, it was way more than 30. Apparently it was international too.

^^^

Reply 13

unholysaint2022

Original post by lucieol

How do these people even get access to the papers? :s-smilie:

someone within Pearson leaked them and sold them online for money, probs FB. So not only did kids waste money, they get disqualified and are ****ed fully.

Reply 14

Risk08

Original post by la flameee

Lool, it was way more than 30. Apparently it was international too.

Please contact Edexcel with any information you have, evidence or no evidence. It's extremely important and students' futures are on the line!

Reply 15

Kevin De Bruyne

Original post by Anon213

My friend from school’s friend apparently had it. I don’t know for sure of course but there’s no reason for someone to lie about that

Then your role is to encourage your friend to report it, it's more productive and potentially has benefits in doing so than to worry about it. If you don't care that much, then this is one of these things in life that just needs to be let go. I understand why people worry about grade boundaries whether cheating is present or not, but they'll be living happier lives when they learn not to worry about results until after they get them. They should read a book or go outside instead of looking at unofficial markschemes and opening up grade boundary releases before results day. You only have long summer breaks for so long!

Reply 16

la flameee

Original post by Risk08

Please contact Edexcel with any information you have, evidence or no evidence. It's extremely important and students' futures are on the line!

I know people who've already done that exact thing. I personally dont have any names or anything. Clearly Edexcel aren't going after the "lucky" people who had the paper sent to them, looks like theyre going after distributors and people who sought it out/paid for them.

Reply 17

username2312801

its good to hear that they have done something about it but then again im still so worried about grade boundaries because this was a terrible exam :frown:

Reply 18

SarcAndSpark

Original post by SomMC1

someone within Pearson leaked them and sold them online for money, probs FB. So not only did kids waste money, they get disqualified and are ****ed fully.

Pearson claim the source of the leak wasn't an employee. They claim to have found the source of the leak and barred that person from any further involvement with Pearson exams. If they're a teacher or work at an exam center, this will wreck their career, so I'd say it's a reasonable punishment!

The article does say 30 further people are under investigation. To be fair, you don't know if the "friend of a friend" you heard about is under investigation or not, as I bet they aren't bragging about that now.

If you have heard anyone mentioning they saw this paper, then definitely contact Pearson, even if you have no evidence. At least then you know it's been investigated properly. If you don't know names, then give the name of the school they go to- at most schools there's <20 students doing A-level maths, so if there's anything in it, it won't be hard to narrow down who was involved.

Don't forget a lot of people lie about stupid things (e.g. seeing the leaked material when they hadn't) or exaggerate (e.g. saying it's all around their school when maybe one person had seen it).

I get that this is a super stressful time, but don't forget that Pearson will want to maintain their reputation, so they'll have made extra sure that their grade boundaries are fair.