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Rachael

Rachael is a 16 year-old student, working hard at GCSEs. In her spare time she's usually found at the dance studio as she's a self-confessed 'ballet-holic'. She was hoping to audition for professional ballet schools but after realising she can't afford it, she thinks she might go off to university instead.

It's not fair when some people get fantastic marks for their coursework, moans Rachael. Especially when they've left it all to the last minute and copied off the people who have already put in the hard graft.

I'm sick of working my socks off to stick to coursework deadlines. I hand it in feeling really proud, then people who have left it to the last minute get other people to bail them out. Then they end up getting mates to 'look at' their work, only to come out with better marks than people like me who have worked on it months in advance!

One of our coursework pieces had to be in before Christmas, which I did. There were other people in my class who left the work for months until they got a letter warning them that if they didn't hand in the coursework, they wouldn't be entered for the exam. So these culprits then get others - like me - who have already done the work, to have a look over what measly writing they have already done, then hand it in nearly four months after the original deadline... and still come out with A*s.

They sit there smugly getting praise from the teacher while us hardworking students get ignored. It's just not right. Why do those of us that put in the effort get ignored while teachers spend time chasing the lazy ones? If they're going to be lazy, that's their own fault - we all have as much work to do as each other!

"Why do those of us that put in the effort get ignored while teachers spend time chasing the lazy ones?"

It bugs me when they put on sob stories about having too much to do", which is pish. The school has made us all take the same amount of GCSEs. I even had to be put on beta-blockers for the stress I was under and I was off for three weeks because I got so ill that I was bedridden. Now I found out my parents are divorcing, so if I can cope and I'm one of the biggest stress-heads ever, then I don't see what's stopping them from getting on with their own work.

It seems to be the same in any subject at school where people don't bother and then get others to bail them out at the last minute and end up outdoing the ones who put the effort in and stick to deadlines. I know deep down that the marks they get are not their true grade, but still, it's not on when they're going to come out with a mark that they don't deserve. Maybe if I stop being such a hard worker and get people to save me I'd sail through these GCSEs... because it certainly seems that way!  

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