



An exam board rapidly rewrote a number of A-Level and GCSE papers after a Parcelforce van containing the papers was stolen.



Exam board AQA produced replacements to guard against the possibility of cheating or fraud.



It’s the third time exam board AQA has rewritten papers after thefts targeting Parcelforce vans - having been hit by two previous robberies in 2005 and 2008.



AQA said, ‘There’s nothing to indicate that [the van] was targeted for the papers or that any of them have come to light.



‘However, we don’t leave anything to chance, so as soon as we knew about it, we contacted our senior examiners and asked them to write some brand-new papers.



‘These are now going out to schools.



‘There’s nothing for students to worry about – they should carry on with their exam preparation as normal, and when they turn up on the day of the exam, they won’t notice anything different.



























