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

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