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'What an absolute joke': Scottish Higher Maths students are raging over this exam question

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

01:15 3 May 2019


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Would you have been able to answer this? 

Scottish Higher Maths students are fuming after a question in an exam was deemed a  "f*****g disaster".

Dozens of pupils went straight to social media to express their disappointment at one of the questions on Paper 2 - which focused on a novelty chocolate box.

And there has even been a petition set up to lower grade bans in the wake of the exam. 

This question in particular has caused outrage. Would you have been able to answer it? Source: Twitter

The petition on Change.Org reads: "Parents, guardians, STUDENTS alike are in dismay at the test set by the SQA for Higher Maths.

"The SQA ought to be examined as this is a shock.

"Students have put such a great amount of readiness into this subject and have now been left damaged.

"They MUST reduce the pass mark for this exam due to Paper 2 being extremely hard."

One Twitter user wrote: "Hope the SQA and their stupid novelty box of chocolates get so far to f**k. That polynomial question I’m higher maths was a disgrace, s**g my fkn right armpit fkn bunch of c***s."

Another added: "What a f*****g disaster boys let’s hope we get that pass mark lowered #HigherMaths".

One said: "Sorry but whAt were those last 3 questions in the higher maths paper actual p**s take cba".

While another added: "Well I’ve definitely failed higher maths for a second time after that disaster of a paper"

 

One raging student wrote: "Excuse my language but the sqa can go f*** themselves after that higher maths exam".

While one student Tweeted: "SQA must be having a laugh, wit the f**k was that higher maths exam felt more like higher human biology".

And one added: "Why the hell did I even try and attempt to sit higher maths. What an absolute joke that was".

However, one Twitter user @isla_jackson1 has shared what she believes to be the correct answers.

And she's offering anyone with potential corrections to respond to her tweet.


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