The Matsec Board said today that it regretted an error in Section C of the Advanced Matriculation Philosophy Exam Paper 1 on Monday and said that special consideration would be given for possible distress caused by this incident.
The examination paper contained questions that were set on topics of the 2011 syllabus rather than that of this year.
On being informed of this error, the Matsec Support Unit immediately convened the paper setters’ panel and issued a correction with appropriate questions. This was handed to the candidates half-way through the examination and they were granted an extra 75 minutes to compensate for the time lost.
"From the feedback received after the examination, candidates were satisfied with this solution," the board said.