Exam results 2015: Can you pass the SQA Higher Maths exam which Scottish high school students found 'too difficult'?
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. These were just two of the questions which featured in this year’s Higher Maths exam which prompted the Scottish Qualifications Authority to admit the new assessment format was indeed too difficult. Student, teachers, and parents took to social media to vent their fury, an online petition was launched for the Scottish Government to intervene on the matter of the ‘flawed exam’, and Scottish Labour has since pressed the SNP government to make sure a repeat of May’s incident doesn’t happen again. The SQA confirmed it had to lower the pass mark for the exam, from 45 per cent last year to 34 per cent this year.
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