Nineteen out of 21 questions in the National 5 exam on May 27 contained problems, according to Computing at School Scotland, a group representing subject teachers.
Kate Farrell, executive committee member of the organisation, said members had identified a series of errors ranging from grammatical mistakes to unanswerable questions.
“We are concerned this will have affected the performance and shaken the confidence of many candidates,” she said.
“We understand writing an exam paper is a collaborative process, and one that involves teachers who write questions for the paper, but we are greatly concerned that the current method of writing exam papers does not include sufficient quality assurance leading to duplication and errors.”
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