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Final-year at a university in England are after they took an economics exam. Students from the University of Sheffield have signed a to say the exam questions were '' to answer. Nearly all of the 100 students who took the complained and signed the petition. They want the university to look into . The students say the exam contained questions on that were not in their course. They also say the questions included a lot of difficult maths that they had not been taught. One student said a told them they would only need 'simple' maths. They are now worried that they will get test scores, and that this will affect what kind of degree they get.

The of the economics department, professor Andy Dickerson, told the BBC that the exam was . He said not all the questions needed . He said the level of maths in the exams was the same as the taught to students on the . Professor Dickerson also said all the exam questions were on topics the students had studied. He said: "All questions were based on topics taught in the course and for which reading was provided." He added that one in the exam used a term that students may not have seen before. He said this was no because the question explained the of the term. The university said it would look at the results.

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