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The exam board admitted it 'did not reach the right conclusion'A vegetarian GCSE student was disqualified from a Religious Studies exam after her comments about halal meat were mistaken by examiners as being Islamophobic. 16-year-old Abigail Ward was accused of making “obscene racial comments … throughout the exam paper” by exam board OCR, which accused her of a “malpractice offence”, according to The Telegraph. But it emerged that the comments in the June exam made by the student from Gildredge House school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, stemmed from her being a “very strict” vegetarian. The disqualification was overturned after an...

London, Aug. 27: An Indian whizkid has become the youngest student to clear Britain’s school leaving exams at age 6. Armaan Genomal cleared his GCSE with a ‘B’ in information and communication technology, completing the course in just nine months — less than half the time it takes 16-year-olds. “It was quite easy. Actually I came out of the exam with a smile. I really liked spreadsheets and things like that. I checked my answers 19 times in the second exam,” said the young pupil of Ryde Teaching Services college in Bushey, Hertfordshire, which is fam-ous for churning out child...