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AQA apologises after physics GCSE error [20/11/2008]
A printing error on a GCSE paper may have caused confusion for thousands of students today, it has emerged.
Alerting the BBC, an invigilator told the news source that teenagers taking the AQA physics exam were faced with a faulty grid for answering multiple choice questions.
Once the problem had been identified, candidates were advised to put their answers on the question booklet instead of using the grid.
The exam board has apologised for the mistake - which could have affected up to 119,000 students - but has assured schools that the teenagers will not be disadvantaged.
Monitoring procedures at AQA will now be reviewed "to establish exactly how this has occurred", a spokeswoman told the BBC.
"As always, we will take all steps to ensure we protect the interests of all our candidates," she added.
Exam board OCR was forced to apologise over the summer after it issued copies of GCSE music exam that had some of the answers on the back.
