That's true Oratory about luck always playing a part. In this case though there are so many who have (potentially) gained an advantage that it could (potentially) impact grade boundaries for everyone who sat the paper. Run of the mill luck will be an advantage for those who eg had recently covered it but the numbers would be too small to have an effect across the board. Btw, I'm an interested observer too-DS did CIE!
Also an interested party - DD did L&R and had to do Singh Song. Other half of cohort did the one from the Sample paper, which they had been through in school with he teacher. So, clearly an unfair advantage.
Can't see how they can do nothing.
DD was also affected by the Computing issue where some students had potential access to the internet and the chance of accessing materials that could benefit them. DD had not done so and was almost complete, with pretty much full marks when the exam board decided that they were scrapping that element from the final grade - thereby disadvantaging DD: strongest aspect of her course gone, after already spending hours on it.
And now we discover she's in the disadvantaged group for English Language as well.
And then she was in a school where AQA sent the wrong History paper earlier this week too.
Three more exams to go - lets home the exam boards manage to not mess up any more for her this week!!!
Meanwhile, apparently IGCSE Spanish was 'quite hard, but hopefully did okay' - so, who knows?! She's been revising maths this afternoon and is having an hour with the maths tutor tonight for some last minute revision, hoping to cover some stuff that they think will come up on paper 2.