My DD is in year 7 and isn't particularly academic but tries really hard. She is currently in set 3 out of 4 and has revised so hard for her end of year exams but hasn't done very well at all. Her way of dealing with the feeling of failure is too blame me for being cross. She knows I am not cross at all far from it. I know she has tried her best but she is so angry because she is such a hard worker and she is desperate to move up a set as her set is full of kids that don't want to work. Her school is quite academic and has a great reputation but the pressure is really getting to her. I am debating whether to move her to the other school which is less academic but has terrible results and huge behaviour problems but is very nurturing and steady for the less academic kids. She doesn't perform very well in exams as she was way below in her SATS scores too but at classroom working she was at expected level. Really don't know where to go as she just wants to do her best and work hard but is never going to get high scores.