Universities are, apparently, offering “therapy dogs and rabbits” to soothe the savagely stressed. Read that sentence again. Read it and weep.

I trust your Easter exam revision workshops, boot camps and Saturday booster lessons have gone relentlessly well.

We cruise from the febrile cramming of April into the sheer hell of the May exam season. You can’t do too much. The more hours you put in, the more Level 9s you’ll get out. This is the received wisdom.

Barnaby Lenon, former head of Harrow and present chairman of the Independent Schools Council, strongly concurs. His charges, carefully selected and privileged, have always done spectacularly well. Why? A prodigious amount of Easter revision. He advises nothing less than seven hours-a-day, a solid 100 hours, 50 topics in two-hour bursts.

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