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C3 Maths exam June 13 2013

How did everybody find the exam ? Do any of you have a provisional mark scheme or remember some of the answers to the questions ? Cheers.
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Missing exam paper sparks re-sit row[/h]By Angela HarrisonEducation correspondent, BBC NewsThe exam was taken on Thursday
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The loss of an A-level exam paper in Amsterdam has led to calls for a free re-sit from UK students who sat the replacement paper.
The exam board Edexcel says it sent out replacement papers after learning about the missing copies - but two schools in the UK mistakenly gave students the original ones.
Students have told the BBC and social media there should be a re-sit for all.
Edexcel says there is no evidence that the lost papers were leaked.
But it will monitor the results and take action if necessary, it says.
The paper is C3 Unit 6665 mathematics and the exam board says the old paper was taken by 60 students, while the replacement was taken by 34,000 in the UK.
Exam papers went missing when they were being delivered to a school in Amsterdam in mid-May, according to Edexcel.
Students are complaining on Facebook and Twitter, with some saying the paper was extremely hard and had questions that were not on the syllabus.
One who contacted the BBC said: "The original paper has been replaced by one which had topics which were completely off syllabus.
"This is an important exam for a lot of people as a lot of people have university offers based on grades that are going to be achieved."
The exam board has no plans to arrange a re-sit.
'Reasure'It said the replacement paper had been designed to the same standard as the original one but that if examiners reported that it had been too challenging for candidates, this would be taken in to account in grading.
A spokesman said the exam board had checked and all schools had received the replacement papers.
"There is always a small risk that a small number of candidates will accidentally sit the original paper, as has happened in this case.
"At this stage we believe that students at two UK and two overseas centres sat the original paper. We are continuing to monitor these numbers and would like to reassure students that all exam scripts will be marked, and we will carry out statistical analysis to ensure that all students are fairly rewarded for the performance on either paper."
Examiners will watch out for near-perfect scores to try to find out whether the original paper had been circulated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22887009

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