A schoolgirl has told of her shock at opening her GCSE results - and getting a grade in a subject she didn’t even take.
Alice Matthews, 16, got her long-awaited email with her exam results this morning while on holiday in Spain.
But when the student, who goes to a school in Hampshire, opened the certificate she got a shock - and not the kind she had feared.
Alice says: “When my results came in I was happy with the grades, until I saw that I’d got a grade in Art, which I didn’t take.
“I was confused but mainly worried in case it meant I’d got someone else’s results and they got mine.
“It definitely didn’t help with the exam results stress.
“It makes me wonder how many other students around the country have got the wrong grades, or grades in the wrong subjects?
"With Covid disrupting our learning and yet us still having to do exams but even the advanced information not being correct, and now with some of our results not even including the correct subjects, it’s frustrating to say the least for us.”
A friend who was with Alice when she opened her results said: “It was quite a surprise. It made Alice worry about the validity of her other results.
“We also wondered if there is an Alice Matthews somewhere missing an art grade.
“Alice messaged a few friends and apparently she isn’t the only one to receive an art grade when they didn’t take the subject. And another friend did take art and was missing her grade.
“Her school don’t have Alice with an art grade, so it seems to be an issue with the exam board, which is WJEC.”
Alice has since received updated results without the art grade, but no explanation about the blunder.
A spokesman for exam board WJEC insisted that no issues have been reported to them with regards to Alice's school. He added: "Given there isn't an issue, we have nothing further to add."
