Students baffled by bizarre Biology GCSE exam question – Devon Live

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Students across the country have been left dumbfounded by a strange question in their biology GCSE exam.

Year 11 students took to social media to mock the paper, supplied by awarding body Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), for what appeared to be a totally random question about Charles Darwin.

After revising and expecting difficult questions on topics such as the menstrual cycles and photosynthesis, students were confronted by the question: "Explain why Darwin is drawn as a monkey."

The odd question about the famous biologist led students to express their outrage on Twitter, and most felt it was unfair that they had not been asked about topics they have spent months revising.

One student wrote: "It's nice to see AQA are ruining this year's GCSEs and not just last year's #AQABiology"

Another added: "How did you pass GCSE Biology?

"Exam: Why was Charles Darwin drawn as a monkey?

"Me: I'm just great at biology

"#AQABiology"

Another student wrote: "AQA disregarding the menstrual cycle, decay, and cloning reminds me of how my parents will disregard me on results day #aqabiology #aqab1"

One very popular tweet noted: "They didn't put the menstrual cycle in #aqabiology because it made a cameo in the #aqafrench exam" before displaying a map of the village Le Tampon.

It is not the first time the AQA biology exam has drawn the ire of students. In 2016 students were left fuming over the GCSE biology exam that contained questions about drunk 15-year-olds.

At the time on Twitter, one student wrote: "Going into a biology exam and getting asked about drunk 15 year olds and independent companies."

Another one wrote: "What drunk 15 year olds did AQA pay to write the b_____t on that biology GCSE exam? Own up please."

This time around one Twitter user harked back to last year's paper saying: "This year's #aqa biology exam must've been written by the drunk teenagers from the 2016 biology exam #aqabiology"

Report by Plymouth Herald.

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