Summer term begins. One last push for our GCSE students, the culmination of five year’s hard labour in the exam factory.
They’ve hunkered down over Easter holidays to put the final bloom on The Knowledge – with revision classes, intensive focus groups, Saturday hothousing, twilight spoon-feeding – and some have tattooed their more intimate limbs with dates, theorems, logarithms and key quotes.
Whizzo results are guaranteed. Students will be knee-deep in glittering grades, A*s will fall like blossom. They won’t get much lower than a B.
What’s going on? Why did my old teaching chums and I do less well? Some of my pupils used to get Ds, Es, unclassifieds and fails.
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