Leaked Edexcel papers - arrests made

[noblegiraffe]

I know some on here were potentially affected by the leak of the Edexcel Economics A-level paper and the stolen C3 and C4 maths A-level papers.

Here's Edexcel's response. They've not been able to say anything before because of an ongoing police investigation:
schoolsweek.co.uk/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-edexcel-a-level-exam-leaks/

They will be looking carefully at results for any statistical anomalies and evidence that students have been advantaged and will hopefully return a fair result for all students.

Thank you for this info. This affects DS.

Arrests? Mind boggles. Who would do such a thing as leak an A level paper online??

Thanks noble .
Blimey, I'm glad they didn't have to postpone the exams. Hopefully maths papers are among the more amenable to statistical analysis as the marking is presumably more objective and consistent than essay type subjects can be.

Not sure I understand. How can they be so sure the C4 leak only had a local impact when questions were published on social media?

That report doesn't say any questions were published online, stonecircle.

The economics it mentions 'high level content' 20 mins before the exam, not 'precise details about specific questions'. Something vague, too late for much extra revision?

And with the maths papers the breach was that the papers were being offered for sale online, which is a very different thing to questions being made freely available. Arrests have been made, the police believe it was a localised issue. Maybe it was someone flogging physical copies of papers.

Some questions were definitely freeley available, some friends from all over the country (none of us doing maths) were screenshotting snapchats they'd been sent. Confirmed they were genuine by people who later say the exam

The people who were selling the papers had published a photo of a page of the exam as proof before purchase.

For some centres these questions were replaced. I guess for others it will be obvious if someone aces those questions and bombs the others, and if a lot of students from the same centre do better on those overall. But some cheats will undoubtedly prosper.