When GCSE students across the country nervously awaited the results of their examinations a few weeks ago, I sat and bit my nails too. The general picture reflected the recent move to provide a more rigorous and perhaps traditional approach, with grade inflation being discouraged. There was a decline in the prevalence of top grades, with the proportion of A and A* results dropping from 7.3 per cent of entries in 2012 to 6.6 per cent of the total in 2015.This comes as no great surprise for students and teachers as, over the past few years, they have seen the demands of their courses change rapidly and variously. The response to this barrage of initiatives in most schools and colleges has been to work tirelessly to better equip the students to meet the requirements set by the examination bo