Is your child doing fine  in English… but something just doesn’t feel right? Maybe the grades are OK, the homework gets done – but you’re...

This morning, I sat GCSE English Language Paper 2. For those of you with children who’ve been through GCSE, this is the monster in the closet, the roller-coaster that goes upside down and inside out, the mountain with an endless glacier to cross. In English terms, this is Everest. But why? What makes this paper so dreaded and so… feared? I wanted to find out — and the best way to do this was to put myself through their experience.