At the end of many exams, I have walked out knowing that I have not done well. There have not been many I have walked out confident that I would be getting a top grade and I believe I left those days behind me along with my A-levels, school uniforms, classrooms, school lunches and all those happy memories of my DC days. The increasing regularity of post-exam depression and realisation that although I may not have failed the previous 2 hours I had done pretty damn badly is in itself quite depressing.

To date, I can recall 2 exams which I have known from even before putting pen to paper that I would do extremely badly in. The first was AE Maths (Advanced Extension). The second, S&M – that’s Simulation and Modelling, a 3rd year Computing Course.