While serious errors shouldn't occur in matric mathematics papers, it appears it doesn't only happen in South Africa, writes Melanie Verwoerd.
Last week, Grade 12 pupils got stuck on a question in one of the math exam papers. It has now been confirmed that question 5.1 in Math Paper 2 contained a mistake and was, therefore, unsolvable. According to the clever people out there, the answer to the question makes Sin X negative, but the paper wanted X to be in the first quadrant, where every trig ratio is positive.