The bane of any teenager’s existence… exams. There is nothing worse than exam season, the undeniable anxiety, the self-doubt and the intense desire for the freedom of summer. A-level and AS students all round Britain are sitting public exams this term with the new reformed courses. The pressure is particularly intense as the new qualifications are solely assessed on end-of-year exams, rather than coursework and AS-levels halfway through for the A-level, however for AS level students, this years exams act as a practice paper for many schools, however, various schools have opted in to the public AS exam to create a more accurate depiction of our outcome next year. However the pressure of our results getting forwarded to our perspective universities as the predicted outcome of our subject grades in the next academic year is indisputably formidable. As dire of a situation as it seems to be essentially the ‘guinea pigs’ of future years of the course as one of the first generations to sit these new exams; with few past papers that are applicable and very pedantic mark schemes, we can be reassured by the fact that we are all in the same situation and we will survive yet another year of examining our knowledge of our various courses and be rewarded with a long summer following their finality.