Posted: Apr 22, 2016 12:55 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36108449
B.B.C. Article
The schools minister has been forced to cancel a national spelling test for England's primary schools, after a teacher spotted it had already been published online as a practice paper.
Nick Gibb said this was a "clearly regrettable incident".
More than half a million seven-year-olds had been due to take the test next month, as part of their Sat tests.
Head teachers' leaders, who had called for the scrapping of the test, welcomed the decision.
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