Dr. Tim Desmond:

No, it was almost disturbingly quiet and highly unusual. We have occasional issues with papers where things have not been quite right or people were not happy and it is not unknown to be still at the desks at 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. on the night of an examination. It was remarkably quiet, however, after the English examination, with only a couple of emails received on the day and a further couple of emails received subsequently. It was very quiet. As I stated, the statistics also stack up. Much comes back to the initial disparity between the mock and sample papers. I would argue that it was this and not the sample papers themselves that spooked people.