Parents and school governors have described the devastating effects of what they say are this summer’s “unfair” WJEC exams in Wales. One mother said her usually confident, high achieving 18-year-old son came home from his maths A level, broke down in tears and told her: “My life is ruined. I won’t get into university.”
One governor of a school in Cardiff reported pupils walking out of exams in tears. She said her school has written to complain to exam board the WJEC about A level questions and an A level chemistry practical with content she claimed should not have been there.
A mother said her 16-year-old daughter’s confidence “was on the floor” after an AS maths paper “had questions that didn’t look like anything they’d seen before” while another said her teenager sat there "not knowing what to do" when set text questions were missed off the A level English language and literature paper.
