ABSTRACT
For many, perhaps most, students, the run-up to an exam is a time of great pressure and considerable anxiety. Even the best and most confident can feel alarm that time is fast running out and that, like some renegade Horseman of the Apocalypse, the day of reckoning is galloping towards them. In short, they wouldn’t think Humphrey Lyttelton’s above gag1 remotely amusing, finding it a complacent and insensitive understatement.
