Wot, no exams?
IF the teachers didn’t give you the A-level results you were hoping for, don’t worry. I got a C and 2Us and I’ve ended up happy, with loads of friends and a Bentley,’ tweeted Old Reptonian Jeremy Clarkson on this year’s August results day. Then there is Old Stoic Richard Branson, who waved goodbye to school aged 16 and is held up as something of a poster boy for the inconsequentiality of exams. Such perspective is, however, probably of little solace to a generation of teenagers who have endured a roller-coaster of uncertainty: the locking of the exam halls in spring 2020, followed by an unnerving concoction of algorithms (with the Government making a U-turn
