At my school, we do AQA exams for most subjects. However, this year, the exam board have been less than reliable. My very first exam was AQA biology, where I found instead of being asked about important science, I was being tested on whether or not I knew why Darwin was drawn as a monkey. This it turned out, set the tone for the rest of the exam period. In Geography, there were only 3/75 marks for the case studies I spent hours learning, and yet 8 marks for drawing pretty sketches of landforms we were given pictures of.
In Ireland, several copies of a maths exam were found in the street before the test was taken by students. Then, to top it all off, they misprint one of the English papers so hundreds of teens who studied Romeo and Juliet have to re-take the exam. All of their hard work, last minute prep and good writing has gone to waste. Clearly AQA think GCSEs aren't stressful enough already. They seem to have taken it upon themselves to make it even harder. At this tough time in our lives, we have enough to worry about without feeling like we cannot rely on our exam boards. They are professionals, they should be able to get this right!
What really upsets me is that if we make a mistake in our exam, we can't blame other people and justify our grade on the news. We have to live with them. So should they. No more excuses AQA!
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