Some A-level papers voided for students after exams leaked online

A-level students successful respective countries, including the UK, person had their exam papers voided aft it emerged they had been leaked online.

Cambridge International Education, the exam committee affected, said it had "moved rapidly to enactment alternate measures successful spot for impacted students".

Some of those students volition person "assessed marks" based connected however they did successful different parts of the course.

"We cognize however frustrating and disappointing this incidental has been for students taking these peculiar subjects, and their families and schools," a spokesperson said.

Physics papers which were sat past week had to beryllium voided, portion immoderate of the aforesaid exam board's maths papers were besides leaked earlier this month.

It is mostly planetary students who are affected, the exam committee says, but the papers are besides sat by immoderate students successful autarkic schools crossed the UK.

They are antithetic from Cambridge OCR exams taken successful UK authorities schools.

The physics exam leak happened connected 20 May, affecting students astir the world.

In a connection online, the exam committee said its precedence was to marque definite it was just to students "who did not cheat, which is the immense majority".

Affected students' marks for the exam volition beryllium disregarded, with a people alternatively being calculated for each pupil based connected their show successful different components successful the syllabus.

Upcoming physics papers person been replaced arsenic a "precautionary step", but students' results dates stay unchanged, the exam committee said, meaning grades volition beryllium issued connected clip and successful enactment with assemblage connection deadlines.

Earlier this month, maths papers were besides leaked, with Cambridge International saying the "theft" of the papers was taxable to an progressive investigation.

Again, the exam committee said the papers would not beryllium utilized to grant last exam results.

One AS level maths insubstantial volition usage assessed marks, and a 2nd volition person a replacement exam successful aboriginal June.

The exam committee confirmed that 1 constituent of a machine subject exam had besides been circulated internationally.

Over 5,000 schools astir the satellite connection Cambridge International Education's AS and A-levels, successful 138 countries, according to its website.

A spokesperson said it "remains uncommon for the integrity of an exam to beryllium compromised", but that it is simply a "threat faced by exam boards astir the world".

The exam committee has besides warned students that galore purported exam insubstantial leaks being shared connected societal media are fake, designed to exploit the exam accent students and their families are under.