Prevalent Complaints in MATSEC Examinations - May 2015 sitting

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due to the very notion that should such table (as this was what was mentioned in the exam paper) been run, it would have in turn produced an error, making it impossible to run. Paper 1 - Section B - no. 18.: Once more students were asked to answer a question to which they did not have the full knowledge of, since there was a part of question 18 which was not in the syllabus. Paper 2 - no. 6 (Part A (iii &iv)): There was the same inconsistency as seen under Paper 1 - Section B - question 12. Unfortunately, “software development lifecycle” is nowhere to be found in the syllabus. Paper 2 - 7d: Students were asked to give an approximation of the time it took to sort a lost on the same computer though with 2n terms. Such being a topic with according to the said student was not in the syllabus. As a result the students were not able to work this question, as they did not possess the necessary knowledge.

Marketing: Questions: No actual questions were referred to, though students spoke of the paper in general. A-level: There were questions on VMS and casual research which were not in this year’s syllabus but in the one which is set to start as of 2017. Intermediate: Students complained of a question on price elasticity demand which was in fact part of the syllabus of those studying Marketing at A-level.

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