TWO weeks ago was one of the busiest weeks in my school career, as Prince Henry’s showcased William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew over three nights, my brother celebrated becoming a teenager, and GCSE module results were released.

Of course, I owe you some sort of insight into the ever-changing world of my exams.

Some subjects such as maths, for example, are known as linear; this means you do one exam in that subject at the end of your two years.

However, other subjects require three or four exams over a period of two years and it was these subjects my year group collected results for.

Mercifully, the dreaded envelope treated me surprisingly well, but in one of my subjects (science) I didn’t perform as well as I would have liked.

Of course, science is my Achilles heel. When asked anything to do with plant tissues or chemical formulae it would appear my brain turns to yoghurt!

The only redeeming feature of this result was that plenty of people were in the same boat.

For some of my friends, history proved a pain, and others were disappointed by their English literature scores. However, before you begin to doubt my chances of becoming the next Einstein, I have one more card left to play.

The re-sit card. Yep, I can have another go at this exam, and exams from last year, to try to improve my chances of success a second time around. I know what older people are shouting. That’s not fair, when I did them, I only got one go at it.

I completely agree with all argument against re-sits, it’s not fair.

Pupils nationwide are allowed to be entered early for exams, and then to re-take them again and again, which just doesn’t seem fair bearing in mind the changing rules happening over the next five years.

It seems that pupils who take their GCSEs and fail in future will not be allowed to re-sit, and will have to stick with the grades they originally achieved.

This worries me no end. What if (heaven forbid) my brother has a nightmare in one of his exams? I just can’t help but see a gaping hole in the education system that will allow me to re-sit exams to my heart’s content, but deny my brother that opportunity.

We’re of equal academic ability, but the system will blatantly favour me over him. It’s yet another display of Michael Gove’s ignorance when it comes to the needs of young people nowadays...