Rachel is doing her revision for six (yes, SIX!) exams at the moment, and she’s so bored she’s trying to find Bamboozle on the Teletext 4. Why do educational establishment insist on making students do exams? Personally, I find exams an unfair assessment of a student’s knowledge and is solely dependant on luck. That’s it. If you don’t know the subjects that come up in the exam, you’re buggered. How does that assess your knowledge and understanding of a particular subject? I don’t get it.

What’s the alternative? Well, coursework seems a very popular choice these days, but are they really fair? After all, they are reliant on a student doing research and then copying and pasting information from a book into the content of an essay. The DfES and school teachers seem to think it’s an easy way for students to pick up high grades.

Hmm, can’t think of any other methods of assessment. Any ideas you lot?