Education Minister Louis Galea said yesterday that papers IIA and IIB of the SEC exam in computer studies held on May 10 mistakenly did not include instructions that candidates had to reply to only five out of the eight questions put. This instruction, he said, was found in the syllabus and the specimen papers and the candidates, therefore, knew about it.

He said that less than half an hour after the exam started, a message was sent to all examination centres asking them to inform the candidates that they had to reply to only five of the questions. Since the exam was of two hours, it was unlikely that any of the candidates had replied for more than five questions.

The minister was replying to a parliamentary question by Labour MP Carmelo Abela.

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