[Gayle]

One thing I learned whilst I was taking my o'levels (GCSE's by another name) was that the teachers and head teacher wasn't allowed to look at your paper unless you left the room before the end of the exam - apparently that gave them the right to look.

I discovered this because I was taking my history exam which I hated with a vengeance - I rarely look back - anyway, I hadn't studied, wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered. After about an hour of jotting down daft answers - the best one that I remember was that a Manifesto was the name of the Roxy Music LP, absolutely nothing to do with the industrial revolution - I decided to leave the exam room. Cue, headteacher hauling me into her office and reading out some of my answers to me - I think she thought I'd lost my mind.

I did get 10 o'levels though so didn't do too badly - just hated history!