So all the best to all our teenagers out there who are engaging in these external exams especially during this unprecedented year of breaks during the academic year.
Our middle child enters her first level on the National grid and we wish her the best for her first exam starting on Friday with Maths which happened to have been one of my favourite subjects growing up but not hers.
Art is another subject that three other members of my family have taken up and succeeded very well at it, having pioneered it myself those many years ago.
The neat thing about Art is that you only need to produce art on boards which then gets assessed without an exam. Quite contrary to popular thinking, art can be taken by academic students as often it's seen for students who aren't academically inclined but I've encouraged those who can excel in this and other academic subjects to take and succeed in it.
Our eldest who has just completed her first year in law school testifies to that too. It's another way of creatively thinking outside the window of academia whereby it's another language, much like Maths, that allows you to creatively consider solutions or resolutions from other perspectives - it's a gift that not everyone can understand.
However, there has been some leniency with students not having to gain the expected 80 credits in the first year nor 50 credits to achieve subject endorsements but I doubt that the marking will have any leniency as the standards that will be expected to be the same no matter what.
So all the best for our teens out there, welcome to the world of adulthood whereby you are often judged by your CV and the academic qualifications that you do or do not have. But not to worry as there are still many who look beyond those papers to see the real person inside - however, not matter what, give it your best!...
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