Exams chaos as students get wrong paper

SECOND-LEVEL schools have vowed to do all they can to minimise disruption to almost 52,000 Leaving Certificate students forced to sit their second English papers on Saturday after this morning’s exam was accidentally given out at a school yesterday.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) made the decision last night following a raft of text messages and internet discussions with details of questions apparently seen yesterday morning by students at the exam hall in question, believed to be in a school in Drogheda, Co Louth.

Students must now sit a back-up paper at 9.30am on Saturday as it was too late to circulate it to schools in time for this morning because the SEC was only made aware of the incident late yesterday afternoon.