Armed with recent statistics nobody with any sense of fair play would schedule the most important exams of the year for May and June. We’re talking hayfever season – a time of year when up to half of your students face a debilitating condition that means they have every chance of underperforming.
If you are not prone to hayfever you probably don’t appreciate just how desperate it can make you feel –
15 per cent of those who suffer claim it totally wipes them out. Writing as a sufferer I have only sympathy.
In terms of exam performance the headline numbers, based on a range of scientific studies, are mind-boggling:
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