The new Higher maths exam sat by pupils in Scotland this year was "more demanding than intended", the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has said. Almost 143,000 students are receiving their exam ...

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A Scottish exam board has admitted that this year's new Higher Maths exam was too hard. The exam, which students take as an equivalent to the A Levels taken in England and Wales, sparked a storm of ...

Many higher-level Leaving Cert maths students were left deflated by paper one, but it had many manageable elements and was less wordy than in previous years, teachers have said. Eoghan O’Leary, a ...