This letter contains many questions - not my usual style of writing. I hope, and expect, make that a demand, that those responsible for the education of our children give some answers and make sure that nobody has to ask them again in the future. You have enough egg on your faces.

Who writes the exam papers? Are they double checked and rechecked for mistakes? Does anyone in the department work out the paper to make sure that questions can be answered? This is extremely important in science subjects for obvious reasons.

How are papers collected at the end of an exam? Where are they taken from there? What procedures are taken to correct these papers? What safeguards are made to ensure that no papers are lost or misplaced? What steps or action can a student take (one who has passed with excellent marks at the end of the first year of Junior College) who has been told that he has to "resit" a paper because he was absent? He wasn't and, lo and behold, he was informed a few days later that his paper was found.

Fortunately for these inept educators, I am past having children in the system. If I did I would have gone much further than this letter.