Scandal at Trinity College

Trinity College Dublin faced excessive embarrassment after handing out incorrect results to students twice. Second-year students in the nursing school were severely disturbed by the errors following their exams. Some students, who had failed, celebrating passing, and others were sorrowful about failing an exam that they actually passed.
The first time students received results they had gotten for an assignment the previous year as the result for their most recent test. After that the wrong results for the Nursing Studies paper were posted. This was one of three exams students took at the end of the first semester. One student commented that the wrong results for the paper were posted over two full days before it emerged that they were faulty. In both cases the students eventually received revised results, but that didn’t take away from their pain. Students that typically achieved very high results were shocked to discover that they had failed miserably on this test. A spokesperson of the college described this as an unfortunate and highly regrettable event. The cause of it was administrative error. The staff member responsible for the results was on sick leave at the time. Nursing school staff met with students and apologized to them.