About 3500 Food Technology students today faced a range of questions featuring topics from in-flight catering to community health promotion to the correct industry sector for piggeries.

The course, with a 16% growth in candidates since 2006, gives students skills and knowledge valuable in many careers including health education, food manufacturing, catering and restaurant operations and nutrition consulting.

Music 1 students listened to pieces including Leonard Bernstein's I Feel Pretty and the rock classic Take a Longline by the Angels for their aural skills exam today.  

Music 2 students answered musicology questions as well as hearing pieces such as Petrouchka (1911)by Igor Stravinsky for aural skills and answering questions on printed scores such as the Scherzo movement of Quintet in A major Opus 81 by Anton Dvorak.

A minor error appeared in Friday's Ancient History exam where the label on Source E said the quoted tomb inscriptions were from a cemetery in Herculaneum.  In fact the label should have said the inscriptions came from a cemetery near the Herculaneum Gate in Pompeii.

While regretting any error, no matter how small, the Board is confident the mislabelling would not have any impact on the way students were able to answer Question 6, worth one mark, nor the way students could combine Source D and Source E to answer Question 7, worth seven marks.

The Board’s judging and marking processes are designed to take into account various issues that may arise in exams from year to year.