Can exams really not go ahead for the third consecutive academic year? You may find yourself considering this, particularly parents, whom feel desperate for their beloved youth to sit their exams and fulfil the purposes of their education. 
However, for the current GCSE and A Level students a loss of learning occurred and this creates distortions in their memory and knowledge surrounding their subjects. Exam season is tough enough, considering the lack of knowledge they obtain will increase the stress only emphasising the pressures and strains on these pupils. 

Particularly for A-Level students, who were unable to sit their exams in 2020, instead being rewarded with teacher-assessed grades through no form of assessments whatsoever. This being the case, not only does this enhance the anxiety these students will be experience towards the upcoming examination season, but additionally they acquire no exam experience and this only makes the approaching examination season all the more daunting. As a result, the distress and suffering of these students could easily overwhelm them, derailing their futures. 

While you may be considering, everyone is in the same situation, but are they really? Throughout England there are a variety of standards of wealth, with different families obtaining a range of income rates and thus resulted in Lockdown to prove more challenging for some families more than others. Moreover, some students were fortunate enough to be provided with the opportunity of laptops, a quiet working environment, communication with teachers, online lessons and most importantly well-being support from both family members and teachers. Whereas other students were left with the bare minimum. Almost neglected. Forced to find their own feet, navigating themselves through the curriculum. 

Shared laptops and rooms, boisterous home lives and generally distractions from ensuring students from achieving the best of their ability. 

This being the case, we begin to understand how all pupils across England are not in the same situation at all. The injustice of the current state of affairs surrounding these exams which are due to take place in only a few months. 

Every single person is aware that at some point, we must reform back to the old structure of how grades were awarded to pupils, however is this too soon for such a damaged generation? Have these students not suffered enough already over the last two years without further distress, making their final few weeks traumatic rather than a way to be remembered. Typically this is the case that exams are completed, pupils leave school and college, however the inconsistency surrounding these last two years enhance this discomposure. 

Exams this year are unjustified and unreasonable when there are easily alternatives and this will be detrimental to the well-being of the students and the outcome of the grades.