Rejected petition Special consideration for A level Edexcel maths (new spec), and review of exams

After sitting Edexcels maths a level paper 2 today, the vast majority of this years cohort have agreed upon the fact that these exams were far too difficult compared to the resources Edexcel provided us, and have additionally caused many students huge amounts of stress and other mental harm.

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Edexcel has provided poor quality of reseources - poor textbook questions compared to questions provided in the exam, missing content from the textbooks (e.g parametric integration), poor specimen materials.
Online, many students have expressed their dissatisfaction with the papers, and how it has effected them mentally, all of which being negative

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This is the responsibility of the exam board and not the UK Government or Parliament.

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Date submitted 12 June 2019
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