Leeds students retake finals

Medical students at Leeds University had to retake part of their final exams this week after it was found that a third of them had seen the questions before. Of the 50 questions on the 1995 multiple choice paper in medicine, 41 were the same as those on the 1993 paper.

Although old multiple choice papers are not normally circulated among the students, the 1993 paper had mistakenly been sent to the medical school library. The university …