Angry parents of Welsh pupils, who last week sat what teachers have described as the hardest exam they've ever seen, have hit out at the exam board's "disgusting" decision. The WJEC has come under fire for its AS-level maths exam on May 19, which teachers and students said included questions that were not on the exam content specification.
Parents said their children had been left in tears while one teacher emailed all her students to apologise for the paper. Another teacher said they would not have been able to answer one of the questions without using a part of the specification that had been removed.
Responding to the criticism the WJEC denied any questions were based on content not in the syllabus. The exam board also responded to similar criticisms about the chemistry AS. Writing under WalesOnline's post on Facebook about the exam hundreds of commenters – many of whom were parents – waded into the row, criticising both the difficulty of the paper, as well as the decision to make candidates, who have never sat exams before due to Covid cancellations, sit them for the first time this year.
