MONTREAL — Final exam period is stressful enough for students but these days it’s a lot worse for grade 10 Quebec high school students.
One of the key questions in their final history exam was leaked and isn’t being included in their grade.
“Personally I think it’s a bit unfair that they just remove the question altogether and that they didn’t change the marking system as some people depend on that question. I did last year and the long question saved me and I did better because I aced that,” Conor Jung, a grade 11 student at Royal West Academy told Global News.
Who leaked the question and how it happened is unclear.
But the speed of the leak is unprecedented.
“We’re living in an era of extreme social media and something like this gets out there very very quickly,” Mike Cohen of the English Montreal School Board told Global News.
Some school teachers are asking the education minister to allow the question or cancel the results of the exam entirely.
Questions number 22 on the history exam counts for 24 percent of the overall grade and an essay type answer is required.
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One teacher told Global News some students can spend up to one hour answering the question.
“Cancel it all and let the school marks speak for the students,” Sheila Cherenfant, a grade 10 history teacher at Royal Vale High School told Global News
The education minister refused to comment on the story but a spokesperson told Global News while question 22 is being discounted for now, more decisions could be made in the near future.
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