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Matt Thrower wrote on Twitter that his 11-year-old was doing her SATs exam and didn’t know that ‘M’ was 1,000 in Roman numerals.
Then the Department for Education (DfE) replied, asking Thrower to remove the tweet.
Picture: Twitter
And then this happened:
Picture: Twitter
But this is only the tip of the iceberg. It turns out the DfE has a rather innovative national strategy to keep the test questions under wraps.
And someone had a great point: