It has been reported that thousands of teenagers are facing uncertainty over their exams after their GCSE music papers were found to have the answers on the back. The GCSE paper which has been taken across England had apparently featured a list of composers, which related to the answers to questions written on the other side.

Examination board Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations has said pupils will not be asked to resit the exam. It says the paper was one of four taken by GCSE music students and that the relevant question would account for no more than 5% of the marks on that paper.

The exam board has said that it believes that “thousands of pupils” could be affected. Last year OCR’s music GCSE was taken by 12,637 students and roughly a fifth of the total number of students taking music GCSE (61,249).

General Secretary of the NASUWT teaching union Chris Keates said that “This puts a shadow over pupils’ exams and adds to the anxiety. No system is perfect and we would not expect it to be but the exam boards seem to have a dubious track record.”

Do you think that the exam papers should be check in future before being handed out to students?

My Daughter is 9 and is doing her SATS and she is feeling the pressure, so the students who are doing their GCSE’s must feel even more pressure without things like this happening.

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