An A-Level exam board has been made to apologise after students complained about a French exam that they were made to sit, reports the Telegraph.
Students called the exam 'appalling' and said that they had to resort to guessing what the answers were as it became ridiculously hard to answer questions on the listening portion of the exam.
Some students have accused Eduqas, the arm of Welsh exam board WJEC that operates English exams, of harming their chances of getting into their university of choice - or, indeed, any university at all.
An urgent review has been started by the exam regulator Ofqual to try to ascertain what went wrong with the exam. The paper was sat by 835 students.
WJEC have apologised to the centres that sat the exam after they admitted their 'error'.
The WJEC director of assessment delivery, Elaine Carlile, said: "The rubric for question four stated that candidates should listen to the second part of the recording in order to answer the questions.
"However, it would have been necessary for candidates to re-listen to the first part of the recording in order to answer question 4 parts (a) to (d) and then listen to the second part of the recording to answer parts (e) to (g).
"We appreciate that this error may have affected candidates in yesterday's examination. A special consideration application can be made on behalf of those candidates."
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WJEC are also taking steps to review all papers that remain to stop this same problem happening again.
Students have been venting on social media about how bad the paper was.
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One wrote: "Half of the skills we needed to pass apparently was to guess what the producers of the exam were thinking while writing it... They were probably thinking of baguettes. Disappointed but not surprised."
Eduqas said that they recognised an 'issue' with not only the French paper, but also a Spanish one as well. They said that they will ensure that none of the pupils will be 'disadvantaged'.
They continued: "A similar issue was noted on the Spanish examination taken by students on Monday June 11.
"We have contacted centres to inform them that a special consideration application can be made on behalf of those candidates.
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"Our examiners and the awarding committee members will be made aware of the situation.
"Candidate responses will be considered carefully during the marking and awarding processes to ensure that no candidate is disadvantaged."
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