h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Continuing with the exams topic i would like to express my feelings towards the government (and especially Tony Blair and the Minister for Education) who have once again degraded the teenage population of this country in the light of the new exam results. Every year as the averages rise we hear that the exams are becoming easier and easier which could not be further from the truth. Having just completed the GCSE's myself i honestly say that they were the most difficult exams i have ever taken and i was worried for 2 months because i thought i'd failed half of them! the marks i attained we from sheer hard work over a two year period, and three intensive months of revising. The government do not seem to realise that it is not the exams getting easier but the pupils working harder because they know that if they dont they will be (apparently) shunned by society and never find a job. We are the most examined country in Europe and next year i shall have to take AS levels straight after xmas and in the summmer once more. No wonder so many people my age develop stress and depression. I think the politicians hhave a lot to answer for.