"I came in three days later to do my exam, then when I finished exams I had the summer off and carried on with my A-levels after the break, " she added.
Anyway, after swearing I'd never do another exam again and somehow gaining a degree in French from Leeds, there I was last-minute swotting yet again, only this time on law and local government studies.
Ian, 17, is preparing for his AS-levels, and his top tip is to "do lots of exam questions".
Because most of their patients live fairly close by, it's generally not a problem to do a home exam and get back to the office in the hour that is scheduled for an appointment.
For those who do not pass the final exam, a reinforcement phase is also provided.
The reason why there are few former state-school pupils at Oxford and Cambridge, they suggest, is that they do not get good enough exam results.
The students already know their exam results although they do not yet know if these are good enough to get into their chosen university or college.
"It's like a law-school exam in what not to do, " says Jonathan Forster, national wealth-management chairman at law firm Greenberg Traurig in McLean, Va.
But he questioned how subjects that do not lend themselves to a single exam, such as art and dance, would be tested in a single exam.
You've got to have one exam board, like most countries do, so that there's some integrity to the system.
Was my mind wandering that day, thinking about an upcoming exam or how much homework I had to do that evening?
The grammar schools' case depends mainly on the glowing inspectors' reports that most of them get, and on their exam results: studies show that their pupils do slightly better than equally bright ones in comprehensives.
Only 43% of the 1.66 million private- and public-school students who took the college-entrance exam posted scores showing they are prepared to do well in college, according to data released by the College Board, the nonprofit group that administers the SAT.
But what I won't do is bring in any idea of any different changed exam system until we've fully re-established confidence in this exam system, firstly, and secondly, any changes would only be brought in on the basis of consensus rather than put through in any other way.
Like great teachers do, Hoekstra was preparing this boy for more than a history exam.
The advantage is that the AS counts as an exam credit, even if the pupil does decides not do a second year.
"Other exam boards have changed their grade boundaries, as they do most years, but it's the unprecedented scale of AQA's changes in English between the January exams and the June exams that we see as unfair, " he said.
Exam boards produced "very precise" guidelines setting out what pupils must do for each level in the marking scheme.
When more details of the new exam were leaked at the weekend, Labour said it supported more rigorous exams but only if they do not act as a cap on aspiration.
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