Pam Alexander combines organisational skills, dramatic jewellery, a passion for housing and choral singing.

‘Three times this year? I didn’t know I was going three times!”
James Hart, 18, has just been told by his mother that he’s booked in for a series of private revision sessions before his A-level exams this summer.

GCSE coursework is generating a huge exam scam, with all the family joining in to ensure good grades

Leilah was fretting. English was her favourite subject but she hadn’t quite got a handle on her A-level coursework. But she knew that her older sister, Sadie, had not only written a stonking great essay on Pride and Prejudice two years before but had also gained full marks for it – at another school.

Rosa got As in all her subjects and is currently on her gap year considering offers from Bristol and UCL to study history of art with Italian. “Not bad for a kid called severely dyslexic at the age of five,” says her mother.