As occurs year on year, and most especially following the Easter half-term watershed when most have sat their mocks, we embark on that period when the stark reality of the impending summer formal examinations can no longer be avoided. This realisation dawns on a sizable majority of Sixth Formers and Year 11 pupils that something significant is going to have to be done if they are to get anywhere near the predictions of some two years previously, based on some form of statistical rule of thumb or a teacher’s finger-in-the-air analysis of potential.
