SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019Teenagers pay the price for a
dehumanising exam system
The pressure to get the right grades is immense – it’s affecting our mental health (PA)
ROMY MCCARTHY
On GCSE results day this week, I couldn’t help but cast my mind back to the
daunting day last year as I walked through the school gates with my parents, trying
my best to read my teachers’ faces thinking: are my results catastrophic? Have I
failed? My teacher is refusing to make eye contact, I must have bombed it... and so
on.I remember feeling through the envelope, trying to guess the results, as I rushed through the rain to find a