DS has just come out of A Level Physics OCR Paper II and said that once again the exam paper contained errors in the questions. This time, however, a table was not included in the list of amendments, so the charge on the capacitor was wrong with incorrect values.
It’s bad enough that all these kids are under enough stress to meet their grades for their uni offers. It’s bad enough that they have worked so hard for so long just for some exam board not to proof read their examination papers before they’re sent out to schools.
Please contact OCR and perhaps even consider other exam boards next cohort. There’s nothing I can do. I’m just a complaining parent whose individual email will be worthless.
DS worked out the table errors and answered the question. His friend was thrown by the errors in the table. So how does this work? If it’s a nationwide problem is the question discounted? But what about those students who worked out what the values should actually have been and managed to answer the question? Do they get any extra credit? But then that penalises other students through no fault of their own. As you can tell, I am very angry. I have watched DS work so hard over the past two years and now his future is in the hands of an exam board that repeatedly makes errors year after year after year on their exam papers.