Exams rewritten after van containing papers stolen
AQA has confirmed that exam papers for a number of different subjects required rewriting through fears of fraud. A spokesperson said: “There’s nothing to indicate that [the van] was targeted for the papers or that any of them have come to light. However, we don’t leave anything to chance, so as soon as we knew about it, we contacted our senior examiners and asked them to write some brand-new papers.”
“These are now going out to schools. There’s nothing for students to worry about – they should carry on with their exam preparation as normal, and when they turn up on the day of the exam, they won’t notice anything different.”
The theft is not the first incident of its kind for AQA, who had to reset 40 papers across 15 subjects in 2008 and 1.5 million English literature papers in 2003 after Parcelforce vans were stolen.
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