Too many (A level) exams for one day?

[SmallWhiteWine]

What does your school do?

I am just interested in a musing sort of way as I know that in a boarding school, a student just sleeps in the San or in isolation away from peers in a staff house (or even the head....!) But what do day schools do?

Well I think its quite rare but you'd just be in isolation for all of them. If you go over 6 hours which my friend's DD did because of her choice of subjects you can get special consideration on the last exam but as that is only worth 2% it doesn't help much.

If we had three exams in one day, you just did one of them in the evening - three times three hour exams were not unheard of, followed by two times three hours the next day was one particularly unfortunate combination a friend had!

Goodness, 2%? That seems awfully low. I know it's not common, but it does seem to happen once or twice each year each school. Today, for example anyone taking English, politics and classics had a clash. They're not uncommon subjects to take together....

It is quite rare to get 3 hour exams though isn't it?

Not minimising the problem, but it's not so bad if it's 1.5/2 hour exams which are more common these days I think.

A friend of mine had to sleep at a teachers house overnight.

It happened to me a long time ago. I went home overnight with a teacher, was not allowed any contact with friends (this was in the the pre-internet/mobile phone age so quite easy to enforce) and did the exam the next day.

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