Exam board AQA has apologised for including an unanswerable question inits A-level Chemistrypaper. <\/p>\n
Pupils sitting the exam this afternoon were told to leave out one of the questions in the paper. <\/p>\n
Schools were contacted about the mistake before today's exam to ensure students could be told, AQA has said. <\/p>\n
But some pupilson social media claimed that they were onlynotified in the middle of the exam and some say they were nottold at all: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Pupils will be awarded the two marks from the question, which has had to be discounted. <\/p>\n
An AQA spokesperson said: \"This shouldn't have happened and we are sorry it did. <\/p>\n
\"Each of our exam papers goes through a lot of checks, but unfortunately errors can very occasionally slip through. <\/p>\n
\"When they do, we always make sure that students don't lose out. But one error is still one too many, so we are carrying out a detailed investigation\". <\/p>\n
The mistake came on the same dayTes revealed that exam board OCRhad made an error in its Biology A-level paper. <\/p>\n
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