"Be gentle with me," she murmured.

“I will, my darling, I will.”

The Reading and Writing exam turned out to be fairly benign. Even the summary was kind and gentle. Ex. 6 offered massive scope for imagination although Ex. 7 was daring candidates to write in clichés, which is what my little darlings will’ve undoubtedly written.

I’m guessing that the grade thresholds will probably be higher rather than lower this year if the Reading and Writing exam was so comparatively easy.

Next up is Listening in a week’s time. As usual, the question is whether we have the kit to play the CDs because the number of students requires seven rooms. This means that the school is going to have to get us the equipment, which they will try to avoid doing, offering instead some dubious alternative because the money for buying sound equipment has long since been embezzled by the corrupt officials who run the school.