SEC: No students affected by maths paper error

The State Examinations Commission says none of the 520 students it believes were affected by a major error in one of June’s higher-level maths exams will have lost out on marks.

It issued the assurance as it detailing the rigorous procedure used to address the problems that arose after the Leaving Certificate Paper 2, sat by a record 13,014 students, was discovered to have a major mistake.

Students who attempted the trigonometry question in a particular way would have found that the triangle described in the question, which did not contain the error in the Irish-language version, could not exist.