By Susie Coen For The Daily Mail
Published: 01:41 BST, 6 June 2019 | Updated: 01:44 BST, 6 June 2019
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An exam board has apologised after a raft of snowflake students claimed a passage in their GCSE paper caused offence.
An excerpt from H.E. Bates's classic novel The Mill was included in Tuesday's AQA English Literature exam.
Students complained that the text was taken from a book which details a character becoming pregnant after being raped by her employer - even though the passage included made no reference to abuse.
An exam board has apologised after a raft of snowflake students claimed a passage in their GCSE paper caused offence (stock image)
The exam paper asked pupils to analyse the language used and the structure of the text in a description of character Alice and her parents selling produce from a van from the 1935 novel.
Later on in the story the protagonist is sexually abused by her employer and dismissed after she falls pregnant. This part of the novel was not part of the unseen exam paper.
But delicate students claimed the text should have come with a 'trigger warning', The Daily Telegraph reported.
Student Hadiatou Barry wrote a letter of complaint to AQA claiming she was 'horrified' to discover how the story develops.
Students complained that the text was taken from a book which details a character becoming pregnant after being raped by her employer - even though the passage included made no reference to abuse
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