ABSTRACT
I WAS going to make some jokes about exams, but facts beat me to it, wilder and more improbable. There was the girl who sat eight hours of exams in one day, the accidentally pre-marketed pure maths paper costing £400 a peep, and then the famous Impossible Physics Question about the moon from the Assessment and Qualification Alliance. Top marks to the school whose pupils were visibly ‘distressed’ by it; most of those canvassed didn’t actually notice anything wrong.
