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

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