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In 2005, the political editor of a national newspaper sat an OCR AS politics exam. He had a first-class honours degree in modern history from St Andrews University, an MPhil. in Marxist-Leninist social and economic theory from Oxford and had been a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Rome. He had also been a nominee for Political Writer of the Year. After the exam he said, ‘The questions were not difficult: I expect to get an A’. He got a ‘C’.
Why? Because his revision consisted of eating a ‘dusty energy bar’, borrowed from another journalist, and he did not know how to write A-grade answers at AS.
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